Staff Platform Engineer - Scale Identity & Infra (Remote)

Keycard; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-First

Equity

Health benefits

4 weeks vacation

MacBook Pro stipend

Job summary

Keycard, a remote-first startup focused on identity and access infrastructure, is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to build core systems and infrastructure that power its agent-native platform. You’ll work on identity services, enforcement paths, developer platforms, and automation ensuring deterministic delivery, consistency, and availability at global scale.

You’ll move across the stack, from Kubernetes operators to core product services, collaborating with founders, product, design, and

Qualifications

• Experience building developer-facing platforms (Kubernetes operators, CI/CD tooling) and core services.
• Strong distributed systems instincts with secure, resilient design.
• Experience shipping in 0-1 environments and making hard trade-offs to enable faster iteration.

Responsibilities

• Build core systems and infrastructure powering Keycard.
• Develop identity services, enforcement paths, and automation for the platform.
• Create Kubernetes operators and CI/CD automation across the stack.
• Collaborate with founders, product, design, and SDK/core services teams to ship with confidence.

Skills

Go

Rust

Kubernetes operators

CI/CD tooling

Distributed systems

Observability

Developer platforms

Tools

Kubernetes

eBPF

WASM

Job description

Keycard, a remote-first startup focused on identity and access infrastructure, is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to build core systems and infrastructure that power its agent-native platform. You’ll work on identity services, enforcement paths, developer platforms, and automation ensuring deterministic delivery, consistency, and availability at global scale.

You’ll move across the stack, from Kubernetes operators to core product services, collaborating with founders, product, design, and