Staff Platform Engineer: Scalable Orchestration

Prefect; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Prefect is seeking a staff platform engineer to join the Prefect Cloud team and help us build and scale the next generation agentic orchestration platform. You’ll operate large-scale production systems and help define reliability and observability practices.

You’ll report to the engineering leadership and collaborate with cross-functional teams to raise the bar on system quality, performance, and user experience, while leveraging AI-powered tooling to accelerate development.

Qualifications

• Experience operating and optimizing large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Familiarity with observability and self-healing techniques.
• Ability to participate in on-call and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Establish strategies for maintaining a high quality of service, including identifying appropriate service-level indicators and defining suitable error budgets.
• Bring strong technical judgment to ambiguous problems, including when to prototype, when to harden, and how to make tradeoffs visible.
• Lead operationally mature work: write maintainable code, build for reliability, participate in on-call and incident response, and improve the systems you own over time.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve the user experience, both for customers and internal stakeholders, through projects covering performance engineering, adopting observability tools, and improving automation
• Raise the technical bar for the team through design feedback, code review, mentoring, and clear written communication.
• Use AI-powered development tools effectively in planning, implementation, review, testing, and iteration while maintaining strong independent judgment.

Skills

Distributed systems

Observability

Self-healing

On-call experience

Tools

Observability tools

Job description

Prefect is seeking a staff platform engineer to join the Prefect Cloud team and help us build and scale the next generation agentic orchestration platform. You’ll operate large-scale production systems and help define reliability and observability practices.

You’ll report to the engineering leadership and collaborate with cross-functional teams to raise the bar on system quality, performance, and user experience, while leveraging AI-powered tooling to accelerate development.