Senior Platform Software Engineer

Standard Template Labs is a stealth-mode, AI-native startup reimagining the future of IT Service and Configuration Management. The Senior Platform Software Engineer will build systems, tooling, and an internal platform to enhance engineer productivity and improve operational workflows across the company.

Responsibilities:

• Build and evolve our internal developer platform (IDP)
• Create self-service tooling that makes spinning up services, environments, and infrastructure effortless
• Improve local development workflows, testing, deployment ergonomics, and developer feedback loops
• Reduce operational friction through automation and platform abstractions
• Design and maintain scalable CI/CD systems using GitHub Actions & Infrastructure-as-code workflows
• Improve: Build times, Deployment reliability & Rollback and recovery systems
• Create deployment workflows that are fast, observable, and boring in production
• Design and operate cloud-native systems on AWS, EKS, Docker & Kubernetes
• Improve platform scalability, resilience, and developer onboarding
• Define service architecture and deployment standards across the engineering organization
• Own observability across the platform using Datadog, Metrics, Logging and Distributed tracing
• Build dashboards, alerts, and operational tooling engineers actually use
• Improve reliability, performance, and operational visibility across services
• Work across core infrastructure systems including: PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis & Temporal
• Partner closely with backend and AI engineers to improve platform usability
• Establish engineering standards and platform best practices
• Make infrastructure feel like a product, not a support function