Staff Platform Engineer

Gardyn is on a mission to make fresh, healthy food accessible to every home through smart indoor gardening technology. As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will own and evolve the device-to-cloud platform, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security while enhancing how devices communicate and operate.

Responsibilities:

• Own the reliability, scalability, and evolution of Gardyn’s device-to-cloud platform, ensuring a seamless connection between our hardware and backend systems
• Lead the evolution of our IoT platform across both current and next-generation devices, including OTA updates, provisioning, and fleet management
• Strengthen device and platform security, including authentication, credential management, and protection against unauthorized access
• Build and maintain embedded Linux systems and scalable deployment pipelines for new device platforms
• Improve device-to-cloud communication, ensuring reliability, performance, and secure data exchange
• Own and optimize backend infrastructure, including databases, virtual networks, and operational systems
• Identify and resolve system bottlenecks, technical debt, and reliability risks across the platform
• Establish strong monitoring, alerting, and observability practices to improve system performance and reduce incidents
• Enhance logging, diagnostics, and recovery workflows to enable faster troubleshooting and operational excellence
• Partner cross-functionally with product, engineering, and other stakeholders to ensure platform decisions support product outcomes

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or IoT engineering
• Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems, ideally involving IoT or edge devices and cloud platforms
• Deep familiarity with cloud infrastructure (Azure preferred), event-driven systems, and observability tooling
• Experience building and maintaining reliable, scalable systems with a focus on performance and uptime
• Proficiency in backend technologies such as Python, Node.js, or similar, along with experience working in Linux environments
• Experience working with databases (e.g., MySQL) and managing infrastructure at scale
• Ability to navigate across hardware, backend, and infrastructure domains with a strong sense of ownership
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify root causes and drive long-term solutions
• A product-minded approach—understanding how platform decisions impact the end-user experience
• Experience with embedded systems (C++, embedded Linux, Yocto)
• Background in security practices for IoT or distributed systems
• Experience working in fast-paced, startup environments