Staff Platform Engineer — Remote, AI‑Native, Scale

Jobgether; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work environment within U

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan with matching

Flexible PTO

Professional performance coaching

Series A backing

Meaningful work supporting frontline

Technical ownership over platform

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Platform to co-own the architecture and evolution of a core backend platform for a growing digital coaching marketplace. The role focuses on scalable backend systems, reliability, and secure, auditable production practices in a remote-first startup.

You will lead infrastructure improvements, establish engineering foundations, and collaborate with product and cross-functional teams to drive platform strategy at a pivotal growth stage.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating production backend systems.
• Experience in staff/lead engineering roles or equivalent leadership.
• Strong cloud and platform engineering background with scalable systems.
• Experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL and live data migrations.
• Proficient in AWS, containers, IaC, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience with AI coding agents and tooling is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Co-own architecture, direction, and health of core platform.
• Develop foundational platform capabilities for multiple squads.
• Lead end-to-end scalability initiatives across databases, queues, and caches.
• Evaluate monolith vs services and implement migrations safely.
• Document decisions and ensure secure, auditable production access.
• Drive AI-ready infrastructure and guardrails for safe AI-assisted development.
• Mentor engineers, participate in design/code reviews, maintain quality.
• Collaborate with product to prioritize platform work and roadmap trade-offs.

Skills

Backend architecture

Cloud infrastructure AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Observability / SRE

AI coding agent basics

Influence without formal management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Docker

Laravel

Sentry

Datadog

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Platform to co-own the architecture and evolution of a core backend platform for a growing digital coaching marketplace. The role focuses on scalable backend systems, reliability, and secure, auditable production practices in a remote-first startup.

You will lead infrastructure improvements, establish engineering foundations, and collaborate with product and cross-functional teams to drive platform strategy at a pivotal growth stage.