Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer

• Location: New York • hybrid
• Company Stage: High-growth, category leader
• Office Type: hybrid
• Salary: $160K-$210K

Company Description

We're representing a company that is redefining the hospitality industry by offering day access to luxury hotel experiences. With a marketplace connecting over 2,500 partner hotels and resorts, they've created unforgettable experiences for millions of guests while generating new revenue streams for their partners. Backed by top investors, this company is scaling rapidly and is on the brink of profitability.
What You Will Do

• Own major platform initiatives end-to-end, focusing on reliability, scalability, and developer velocity across all backend services.
• Lead technical design for platform-level changes, driving alignment across teams and making pragmatic architectural decisions.
• Build and evolve CI/CD and GitOps workflows to enhance build times, deployment safety, and release visibility.
• Design and operate cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) across AWS for consistency and scalability.
• Drive the adoption of SRE best practices, including defining SLOs and improving incident response.
• Continuously improve developer experience by reducing friction in local development, testing, deployment, and debugging workflows.

Ideal Candidate Background

• Strong generalist engineer with a deep understanding of backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and developer workflows.
• Proven experience owning platform-level or infrastructure initiatives end-to-end.
• Solid knowledge of AWS, containers (Docker/Kubernetes), and cloud systems.
• Demonstrated ability to build or improve CI/CD pipelines and observability systems.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, such as Terraform.

Preferred

• Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog.
• Background in reliability engineering and experience defining and measuring SLOs.
• Experience mentoring and raising engineering standards through code reviews.

Compensation and Benefits

The base salary for this position ranges from $160,000 to $210,000, along with equity options, providing a compelling opportunity to be part of a rapidly growing company.