Staff Platform Engineer: Fast, Reliable Dev Tools (Remote)

Depot; Union (NJ); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Depot is seeking a Staff Engineer to own product work across the web console, APIs, CLI, billing, and internal tools. You will turn ambiguous customer pain into clear plans and carry them through design, implementation, rollout, and measurement.

You will improve developer workflows for CI, container builds, cache, and integrations, and design stable APIs and data models. This role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and delivering impactful results for a remote team.

Qualifications

• Staff-level product engineering judgment across backend behavior, API shape, data model, UI flow, and operational reality.
• Experience owning meaningful projects from ambiguity to production, including sequencing, tradeoffs, rollout, and follow-through.
• Strong technical depth in backend, full-stack, platform, infrastructure, or developer-tooling systems.
• Excellent debugging instincts across application code, APIs, databases, background jobs, cloud infrastructure, observability, and third‑party integrations.
• Developer empathy for clear APIs, intuitive CLIs, useful docs, actionable errors, and workflows that feel fast and trustworthy.
• High emotional intelligence: you communicate clearly, handle disagreement constructively, and help a remote team make better decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own product work across the web console, APIs, CLI, GitHub integrations, billing and usage, permissions, docs, and internal tools.
• Turn ambiguous customer pain into clear product and technical plans, then carry them through design, implementation, rollout, and measurement.
• Improve developer-facing workflows for CI, container builds, cache, registry, runners, setup, logs, errors, and integrations.
• Design APIs and data models that are consistent, understandable, and safe to evolve.
• Debug production issues across services, databases, AWS infrastructure, integrations, and customer environments.
• Raise the engineering bar through design docs, code review, mentorship, and calm technical leadership.

Skills

Backend judgment across API shape

Data model design

UI flow understanding

Operational reality awareness

Cross-functional ownership

Strong debugging instincts

Remote team leadership

Tools

TypeScript

Go

React

protobuf/gRPC

MySQL/PlanetScale

ClickHouse

AWS

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Depot is seeking a Staff Engineer to own product work across the web console, APIs, CLI, billing, and internal tools. You will turn ambiguous customer pain into clear plans and carry them through design, implementation, rollout, and measurement.

You will improve developer workflows for CI, container builds, cache, and integrations, and design stable APIs and data models. This role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and delivering impactful results for a remote team.