Staff Platform Engineer — Remote, Scale & Reliability Leader

Rockstar; United States; Remote; USD 175,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Job summary

Rockstar is recruiting for a mission-driven company transforming the housing industry through innovative co-living solutions. They are looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to provide technical leadership for their platform infrastructure and backend architecture as they continue to scale.

This role will drive platform strategy, improve system reliability and developer productivity, and partner across engineering teams to build secure, scalable solutions that support the company’s long-term

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale backend platforms and distributed systems.
• Deep expertise building, scaling, and modernizing production Django applications.
• Expert-level experience architecting and operating cloud environments on AWS.
• Proven ability to design resilient, secure, and scalable systems that support significant business growth.
• Advanced knowledge of PostgreSQL architecture, performance optimization, and data modeling.
• Experience building observability, monitoring, incident management, and reliability practices.
• Demonstrated success driving engineering decisions and influencing technical direction across teams.
• Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts and mentor others.

Responsibilities

• Platform Strategy: Define and drive the technical roadmap for platform infrastructure, reliability, and scalability initiatives.
• Architecture Leadership: Design and review complex system architectures that support company growth and evolving business needs.
• Technical Direction: Establish engineering standards, best practices, and technical patterns across multiple teams.
• Reliability Ownership: Improve system observability, incident response processes, and operational excellence across the platform.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with Engineering, Product, and Design leaders to align technical investments with business priorities.
• Technical Mentorship: Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance that elevates engineering capabilities across the organization.
• Platform Development: Build and improve backend services, infrastructure tooling, and shared platform capabilities.
• Risk Management: Identify technical debt, scalability risks, and operational vulnerabilities before they become business constraints.

Skills

Platform strategy

Backend development

Cloud architecture

Systems design

Database expertise

Operational excellence

Technical leadership

Communication & mentorship

Tools

Django

PostgreSQL

AWS

Job description

Rockstar is recruiting for a mission-driven company transforming the housing industry through innovative co-living solutions. They are looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to provide technical leadership for their platform infrastructure and backend architecture as they continue to scale.

This role will drive platform strategy, improve system reliability and developer productivity, and partner across engineering teams to build secure, scalable solutions that support the company’s long-term