Staff Platform Engineer: Scale Dev Platform & AI Tooling

Shakepay; United States; Remote; USD 149,295 - 177,732; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

AI token budget

Stock options

Annual salary reviews

Health & dental coverage

Remote-friendly (Canada)

Career growth budget

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Shakepay is looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to shape and grow the internal developer platform that empowers Shakepay’s engineering teams. You will architect foundational systems, build automation, and drive observability across the production environment, enabling teams to ship quickly and reliably.

You’ll partner with leadership to define long-term platform strategy, mentor engineers, and lead multi-team initiatives.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles.
• Strong programming experience (Go, Python, JavaScript, or similar).
• Deep experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Extensive experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated deployment systems.
• Experience designing internal platforms or developer tooling used by multiple teams.
• Experience improving developer experience and engineering velocity through platform improvements.
• Experience building tools or workflows that leverage AI/LLMs to automate tasks or augment developer productivity.
• Strong system design and architectural thinking.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives across teams.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• A pragmatic mindset focused on solving real business problems.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the architecture of Shakepay’s internal developer platform.
• Design and build foundational infrastructure that supports our growing systems and teams.
• Lead the development of internal tooling and automation that significantly improves developer productivity.
• Architect and implement infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices across the platform.
• Build and evolve observability systems including monitoring, alerting, and dashboards.
• Design and implement AI-powered internal tools and agentic workflows that automate operational and development tasks.
• Improve system reliability, scalability, and performance across our production environment.
• Partner with product and infrastructure teams to drive best practices in system design and operations.
• Lead technical initiatives that span multiple engineering teams.
• Mentor engineers and guide technical decision-making through design reviews and architecture discussions.
• Influence the long-term technical direction of our infrastructure and platform ecosystem.
• Contribute to incident response and drive improvements to operational resilience.

Skills

Go

Python

JavaScript

Distributed systems

Infrastructure-as-code

Developer tooling

AI/LLMs

System design

Leadership

Collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Kafka

PostgreSQL

ArgoCD

Helm

Datadog

Job description

Shakepay is looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to shape and grow the internal developer platform that empowers Shakepay’s engineering teams. You will architect foundational systems, build automation, and drive observability across the production environment, enabling teams to ship quickly and reliably.

You’ll partner with leadership to define long-term platform strategy, mentor engineers, and lead multi-team initiatives.