Senior Platform Engineer

Location: New York, San Francisco or Croatia Type: Full-time About the Role We’re seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to help build and scale Daytona’s core components. You’ll work on the APIs, orchestrator, and supporting services that form the backbone of Daytona’s runtime layer. This is a highly technical role where you’ll architect, implement, and optimize mission-critical infrastructure that powers thousands of developers and millions of AI agents. If building reliable, elegant, and extensible platforms excites you, this role is for you. What You'll Be Doing Design, build, and maintain Daytona’s core APIs and orchestrator Develop supporting services and tooling that improve scalability and reliability Collaborate with AI and systems engineers to ensure seamless integrations across the stack Improve developer experience through robust abstractions and interfaces Contribute to standards and best practices for system design and service architecture Write documentation, developer guides, and tooling references You Might Be a Fit If You Have experience building distributed systems, APIs, and large-scale services Are comfortable with orchestration, scheduling, and service-to-service communication Care deeply about reliability, security, and performance at scale Write clean, maintainable code and value long-term platform stability Enjoy working across multiple layers of the stack Bonus Points Experience with Kubernetes, container runtimes, or orchestration frameworks Familiarity with developer tooling, infra platforms, or AI runtime layers Contributions to open-source projects in distributed systems or platform engineering About Daytona Daytona is building the agent-native runtime layer for modern software development. Our platform spins up secure, sandboxed environments in under 90ms, used by developers and AI agents alike. Daytona is open source, trusted by thousands, and backed by top-tier investors. We’re not just making dev environments faster. We’re redefining how software gets built. Successful candidates will be contacted for an interview. We appreciate all the applications we receive, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted. #J-18808-Ljbffr Daytona Platforms Inc.