Senior Platform Engineer

We are looking for a senior platform engineer to drive the core platform, infrastructure, and developer tooling behind our products. This role is both hands-on and strategic: you will design and implement core systems, define the platform roadmap, and work across engineering teams to ensure we have a secure, reliable, and scalable foundation.

Requirements

• Design and implement complex and critical backend systems such as payment processing and authentication systems in the core Wag backend application
• Design cross-platform and cross-team system architecture
• Design and implement efficient build and deployment pipelines, containerization (Docker, Gitlab CI/CD), and developer tooling to improve productivity
• Incorporate AI powered solutions to support platform quality and developer productivity
• Define and maintain the platform roadmap, balancing reliability, developer productivity, technical debt, and cost
• Design the bug detection and triage tooling and procedures
• Contribute infrastructure as code using Terraform
• Design and drive incident response procedures including observability and on-call tooling
• Serve as a trusted technical owner for key backend systems
• Mentor engineers on infrastructure and platform best practices
• Ensure Security & Compliance in platform design in partnership with Security Manager
• Own the data engineering and analytics platform design
• Participate in on-call incident response for key systems