Staff Software Engineer, Internal Developer Platform

MyFitnessPal is a company dedicated to helping individuals achieve their health goals through innovative tools and resources. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their Infrastructure team, where the role involves designing and evolving an internal developer platform that enhances developer autonomy and efficiency. The position emphasizes collaboration and mentorship while delivering a secure and reliable cloud infrastructure for product engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Define and build MyFitnessPal’s Internal Developer Platform (IDP) from the ground up, turning our cloud infrastructure capabilities into a product that enables engineers to ship with confidence
• Lead major technical initiatives to dramatically improve developer velocity and autonomy, including automation that reduces cognitive load and operational toil
• Partner with Infrastructure, Security, and Product Engineering to identify the highest-leverage platform problems and deliver solutions that are secure-by-default and easy-to-adopt
• Drive adoption through experimentation, using feedback loops, developer listening sessions, office hours, metrics, and iterative improvements based on real usage
• Mature the Infrastructure team’s capabilities through automation and efficient architectural design
• Coach team members to grow technical skills and increase the success of the team
• Provide thought leadership on industry best practices around design, testing, security, and deployment
• Be at the forefront of ways agentic AI is influencing software development
• Turn big ideas or complex problems into simple, elegant solutions

Requirements:

• Possess 3+ years of experience as a senior software or senior cloud infrastructure engineer
• Strong software engineering foundation with significant experience building platforms or developer-facing infrastructure tooling (you've shipped products to internal users)
• Proven experience taking a platform engineering initiative from zero to meaningful adoption, including defining the 'north star,' designing and shipping the initial product, and iterating based on feedback and metrics
• Deep experience with cloud-native infrastructure on AWS and modern runtime patterns (Docker/Kubernetes/EKS, EC2, S3, etc.)
• Expertise in building automation with IaC (Terraform is a plus) and modern CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions is a plus) with an emphasis on reusability and developer ergonomics
• Strong understanding of cloud networking and security fundamentals (VPCs, identity/IAM, policy/guardrails, secrets management)
• Experience designing and applying automated testing and tooling to reduce maintenance overhead and operational toil
• Demonstrated experience in planning and executing complex projects while driving alignment across cross-functional teams
• Experience supporting B2C/mobile backend environments with high traffic, rapid iteration, and strong reliability needs is a plus
• AWS or equivalent cloud solutions architect certifications are a plus