Platform Engineer

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll be part of a startup that is building a unified developer platform. Guidepad is a Platform-as-Data (PaD) tool that allows teams to efficiently develop, specify, deploy, and maintain complex systems at scale. Guidepad provides several key tool sets and modular abstractions for defining entity schemas, infrastructure, services, permission boundaries, and API operations as data, enabling a suite of low-code/no-code interfaces. A bundled workflow management system serves as a foundation for building automations across systems, whether the domain is ML/AI pipelines, DevOps, or ETL.

Finally, Guidepad features native RBAC controls in a centralized Operations API, ensuring that clients and internal services are only permitted to perform operations within their applicable scope of work.
We’re looking for an individual who also enjoys mentoring teammates and leveraging your experience to increase the productivity of other engineers.

What you’ll do:
• 3+ years of experience writing high-quality production code
• Experience building high-performance distributed systems at a large scale
• Strong cloud skills
• Strong knowledge of low-level operating system foundations (Linux kernel, file systems, containers, etc.)
• Experience with performance engineering

Other characteristics of the candidate we’re looking for:
• Value close collaboration with product and design
• Prefer iterating quickly with modern DevOps and Agile processes
• Passionate about building high quality code and engineering culture
• Experience with React, Webpack
• Experience working with backend web frameworks and technologies
• Experience working across microservices and understanding interactions between services
• Experience with some of the many other technologies that we work with, such as Kubernetes, Typescript, Node.js, GraphQL, Apache Beam, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch