Staff Software Engineer, Platform

New

Sharp PerformanceCoaching marketplace

United StatesFull-TimeStaff

Salary not disclosed

Apply NowOpens the employer's application page

Job Details

Experience: 8+ years building and running production backend systems, with recent time at staff or lead level.
Required Skills: AWSPostgreSQLMySQLCI/CDDistributed Systems

Bring 8+ years of experience building and running production backend systems, including recent staff- or lead-level work.
Have a product mindset and experience shaping roadmaps with product and design.
Have deep platform engineering experience owning infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and runtime for a growing product.
Demonstrate experience scaling systems through growth and diagnosing and addressing failures or bottlenecks.
Bring strong relational database skills with MySQL or PostgreSQL, including schema design, query tuning, indexing, and live-data migrations.
Have hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, containers, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD; AWS is preferred.
Understand asynchronous and distributed patterns, including queues, workers, webhooks, idempotency, and retries.
Have set technical direction for a team and led through influence.
Use AI coding agents daily and be able to review and de-risk their output.
Have experience building agent tooling or harnesses, such as skills, MCP servers, eval loops, or production-access guardrails.
Write clear design documents and explain trade-offs to engineers and product managers.
PHP and Laravel experience is a plus; experience with Go, Python, Ruby, Node, or Java is also suitable.

Co-own the architecture and long-term health of the core Laravel platform, including its database, API, background jobs, and internal admin tooling.
Build platform foundations including stable APIs and contracts, CI/CD, environments, feature flags, observability, and on-call readiness.
Identify and resolve bottlenecks in databases, queues, caching, and third-party integrations.
Determine where to retain the monolith and where service, queue, or event boundaries are appropriate; document decisions and deliver migrations safely.
Make the platform agent-ready with bounded modules, fast CI, reliable test environments, and safe, auditable agent access to evidence.
Harden reliability and security through multi-tenant data isolation, access controls, audit trails, and incident response aligned with SOC 2.
Review designs and code, mentor and unblock C-Squad engineers, and maintain coherent squad output.
Work with product and other squads on roadmap trade-offs between platform and feature work.

View Full Description & ApplyYou'll be redirected to the employer's site