Staff Engineer- Platform Engineering

About the Role

We are looking for a Staff Engineer, someone with 9+ years of exp to join our Cloud Platform Engineering team and take deep ownership of critical platform systems within a multi-tenant SaaS environment.

This role sits at the intersection of backend engineering and cloud infrastructure , focused on building and operating scalable, reliable systems powering both the control plane and data plane .

As a senior technical leader, you will drive key architectural decisions, lead high-impact platform initiatives, and mentor engineers—while remaining hands-on in solving complex engineering problems at scale.

What You Will Do

Architecture & Platform Design

• Lead the architecture and design of core platform subsystems across control plane and data plane
• Build multi-tenant systems with strong isolation, security, and resource governance
• Define and evolve platform abstractions across cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, on-prem)
• Drive architectural reviews and contribute high-quality design proposals (RFCs)

Control Plane Engineering

• Design and build systems for tenant provisioning, lifecycle management, and configuration
• Develop cluster orchestration and management workflows at scale
• Build APIs and automation to enable self-service for internal teams and customers
• Ensure high availability, observability, and auditability of platform services

Data Plane Engineering

• Build high-throughput, low-latency data path components
• Implement strong tenant isolation at the data layer
• Optimize systems for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency

Engineering Excellence

• Uphold high standards in system design, code quality, and operational excellence
• Identify and mitigate risks across reliability, scalability, and security
• Partner with SRE/DevOps on observability, incident response, and capacity planning

Mentorship & Collaboration

• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on guidance
• Contribute to hiring and help maintain a high technical bar
• Collaborate across teams and geographies to drive platform direction

What You’ll Have

SaaS Platform & Multi-Tenancy

• Strong experience building or operating multi-tenant SaaS platforms (silo/pool/bridge models)
• Expertise in tenant lifecycle management and resource governance
• Knowledge of data isolation strategies (schema-per-tenant, DB-per-tenant, row-level security, encryption)

Control Plane & Data Plane Systems

• Experience with control plane/data plane separation and cluster management
• Hands-on with Kubernetes (operators, CRDs, RBAC, namespaces)
• Familiarity with configuration management at scale (GitOps, feature flags, dynamic config)

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Strong understanding of VPC, IAM, Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS), and IaC (Terraform/Pulumi)
• Exposure to service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, Envoy)

Distributed Systems & Security

• Deep understanding of distributed systems (HA, fault tolerance, scalability)
• Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Knowledge of security best practices (zero trust, secrets management, compliance standards)

AI-Augmented Engineering

• Comfortable using AI tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude) to improve productivity
• Ability to evaluate and apply AI-generated outputs effectively

Good to Have

• Exposure to FinOps (cost attribution, showback/chargeback, cost optimization)
• Experience building observability platforms (logging, metrics, tracing, alerting)
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure or platform projects

What Success Looks Like In 3 months:

• Understand platform architecture and key systems
• Deliver at least one meaningful improvement
• Build strong working relationships

In 6 months:

• Own and deliver a significant platform feature end-to-end
• Identify and address scalability/reliability gaps
• Contribute to hiring and team growth

In 12 months:

• Be a recognized technical leader within the platform team
• Drive measurable improvements in reliability, scale, or developer experience
• Mentor engineers who demonstrate clear growth