Staff Platform Engineer

Beam Benefits is a company dedicated to modernizing the dental benefits industry through innovative technology. They are seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to enhance their production platform and developer experience, focusing on building systems that streamline workflows and improve operational efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Tactically apply agentic and generative AI to optimize platform development, operations, and growth
• Collaborate with application teams to identify pain points and bottlenecks in workflows and implement solutions that streamline the developer experience
• Design, implement, and maintain platform infrastructure that ensures high availability, predictable performance, and operational correctness, while balancing reliability, cost, and simplicity
• Drive platform and infrastructure change hands-on, from architecture through implementation, setting the technical direction and standards
• Provide mentorship and technical leadership to other platform engineers, helping raise overall operational maturity and shaping engineering culture
• Lead design and architectural discussions for complex platform systems, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and alignment with business goals
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of platform processes and developer experience, fostering innovation and adoption of effective tooling

Requirements:

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of delivering high-quality, maintainable, and scalable software
• Deep expertise in full-stack or backend systems, with strong proficiency in modern web applications such as Ruby and React/TypeScript
• Proven experience designing scalable, high-performance architectures, internal platforms, or developer tooling
• Experience with AWS core services and containerized workloads (ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, etc.) and cloud infrastructure best practices
• Experience identifying and applying AI or automation opportunities across the platform to improve efficiency, reliability, and developer experience, while thoughtfully evaluating trade-offs and benefits
• Excellent problem-solving and technical leadership skills, with the ability to make forward-looking architectural decisions
• Strong communication skills, capable of leading technical discussions and aligning teams on platform strategy and decisions
• Experience mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and platform-driven best practices
• Familiarity with modern engineering practices, agile methodologies, and CI/CD pipelines