资深平台工程师（完全远程）
Staff Platform Engineer (Fully Remote)
我们所需的职位
PadSplit 正在寻找一位资深平台工程师，为我们的平台基础设施和后端架构提供技术领导，随着我们市场的持续扩展。该职位将推动平台战略，提升系统可靠性与开发人员生产力，并与其他工程团队合作，构建安全、可扩展的解决方案，以支持公司的长期增长。
我们寻找的人选
我们正在寻找一位经验丰富的工程师，擅长解决复杂的技术挑战，并能在多个团队中影响工程方向。您在分布式系统、云基础设施和后端架构方面有深厚的专业知识，同时能够在战略思考与实际执行之间取得平衡。您是一位善于协作的领导者，喜欢指导他人，推动技术卓越，并构建能产生持久业务影响的系统。
您日常的工作内容包括：
- 平台战略 – 定义并推动平台基础设施、可靠性和可扩展性计划的技术路线图。
- 架构领导 – 设计并评审支持公司增长和不断变化的业务需求的复杂系统架构。
- 技术方向 – 在多个团队中建立工程标准、最佳实践和技术模式。
- 可靠性责任 – 提升系统的可观测性、事件响应流程和平台上的操作卓越性。
- 跨团队影响 – 与工程、产品和设计负责人合作，确保技术投资与业务优先级一致。
- 指导与辅导 – 指导工程师并提供技术指导，提升组织内的工程能力。
- 平台开发 – 构建和改进后端服务、基础设施工具和共享平台功能。
- 风险管理 – 在技术债务、可扩展性风险和运营漏洞成为业务限制之前识别它们。
您要成功需要具备以下条件：
- 平台专业知识 – 在设计和运营大规模后端平台和分布式系统方面有丰富经验。
- Django 精通 – 在构建、扩展和现代化生产级 Django 应用方面有深入的专业知识。
- 云架构 – 在 AWS 中架构和运营云环境方面有专家级经验。
- 系统设计 – 有设计稳健、安全且可扩展系统的能力，能够支持显著的业务增长。
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The Role We Need
PadSplit is looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to provide technical leadership for our platform infrastructure and backend architecture as we continue to scale our marketplace. 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 growth.
The Person We Are Looking For
We're looking for a highly experienced engineer who excels at solving complex technical challenges and influencing engineering direction across multiple teams. You bring deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and backend architecture, while balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution. You are a collaborative leader who enjoys mentoring others, driving technical excellence, and building systems that create lasting business impact.
Please note: Although the job posting says it's in Atlanta, Georgia, this is a fully remote position. This is a result of our Applicant Tracking System requiring a location to post the role on LinkedIn.
Notice to Applicants:
PadSplit participates in E-Verify. All new employees are required to complete an I-9 form and be authorized to work in the United States. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of the E-Verify process.
PadSplit is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Here’s What You’ll Do Day-To-Day:
- 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-Team Influence – Partner with Engineering, Product, and Design leaders to align technical investments with business priorities.
- Mentorship & Coaching – 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.
Here’s What You’ll Need To Be Successful:
- Platform Expertise – Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale backend platforms and distributed systems.
- Django Mastery – Deep expertise building, scaling, and modernizing production Django applications.
- Cloud Architecture – Expert-level experience architecting and operating cloud environments within AWS.
- Systems Design – Proven ability to design resilient, secure, and scalable systems that support significant business growth.
- Database Leadership – Advanced knowledge of Postgres architecture, performance optimization, and data modeling.
- Operational Excellence – Experience building observability, monitoring, incident management, and reliability practices.
- Technical Influence – Demonstrated success driving engineering decisions and influencing technical direction across teams.
- Mentorship & Communication – Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts and develop other engineers.
The Interview Process:
- Your application will be reviewed for possible next steps by the Hiring Manager.
- If you meet eligibility requirements, the next step would be a video screen with a member of the PeopleOps team for about thirty (30) minutes.
- If warranted, the next step would be a video interview with our Director of Platform for one (1) hour.
- If warranted, the next step would be a video panel interview with key stakeholders at PadSplit for two (2) hours.
- The panel interview will require a candidate to work on a technical assessment where you will showcase your software skills to the panel for discussion.
- If warranted, the final interview would be with our CTO.
- If warranted, then we move to contract!