Ship backend systems that power admissions, financial aid, registrar workflows, reporting, and real-time student experiences
Build and maintain data pipelines and ingestion flows supporting analytics, product, and operational automation
Own CI/CD and deployment workflows to ensure fast, reliable releases across backend, mobile, and frontend
Design and scale cloud infrastructure using GCP and Terraform
Improve developer experience and data scientist experience — tools, environments, testing workflows, and internal automations
Partner across engineering (backend, mobile, data, product) to accelerate delivery and reduce operational friction
Strengthen security & compliance through better access control, audit-ready logging, secrets management, and hardened infrastructure

7–10 years of experience as a backend engineer, platform engineer, DevOps/SRE engineer, or data engineer
Strong in Go or Python and you design backend systems for reliability and clarity
Hands-on experience with cloud services (AWS, GCP or Azure), Terraform, Docker, and CI/CD tooling
Experience with data pipelines, warehouses, or operational data workflows
Caring deeply about reliability, performance, graceful degradation, and observability
Curious and growth-oriented, always learning, improving, and raising the engineering bar
Clear communication and collaborative work style with low ego

Medical, dental, and vision insurance
401(k) match
Fertility benefits via Carrot
Flexible Time Away + paid holidays
In-office lunches for our NY Office (did we mention, we’re dog friendly? 🐶)
Hybrid work schedule (Mon & Fri remote; Tues-Thurs in-office)
Social events
happy hours, birthday celebrations, holiday parties, & more!
Opportunity to make an impact – you’ll be an integral player in bringing our vision to life

Staff Platform Engineer

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