Staff Platform Engineer - Data & Infra

Beacon Holdings; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Software is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to own a core platform area end-to-end—design, implementation, operations, and long-term technical direction. You will work on multi-tenant data infrastructure and core services powering portfolio companies.

You will write in Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript, focusing on correctness, latency, and developer experience in a scalable platform.

Qualifications

• Built and operated systems that real businesses depend on.
• Experience with multi-tenant data infrastructure and modern data stacks.
• Ability to defend architectural decisions and write clean code.

Responsibilities

• Own a core area end-to-end: design, implementation, operations, and long-term direction.
• Build robust, multi-tenant data infrastructure and APIs used by other teams.
• Ensure correctness, latency, observability, and developer experience.
• Develop and maintain governance around safety and blast radius.
• Collaborate across teams to scale platform capabilities.

Skills

Senior depth

Distributed systems

Data infrastructure

Platform mindset

Ambiguity tolerance

ML interest

Tools

Python

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Job description

Beacon Software is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to own a core platform area end-to-end—design, implementation, operations, and long-term technical direction. You will work on multi-tenant data infrastructure and core services powering portfolio companies.

You will write in Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript, focusing on correctness, latency, and developer experience in a scalable platform.