Staff Platform Engineer
PadSplitCo-living Marketplace company
Atlanta, United StatesLead
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About the role
TL;DR
Lead platform infrastructure and backend architecture for a growing marketplace.
- •PadSplit is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to lead platform infrastructure and backend architecture, driving scalability and reliability for their marketplace.
- •This role will define platform strategy, enhance developer productivity, and build secure, scalable solutions.
- •Key Responsibilities Define and drive the technical roadmap for platform infrastructure, reliability, and scalability.
- •Design and review complex system architectures supporting company growth.
- •Establish engineering standards and best practices across multiple teams.
- •Improve system observability, incident response, and operational excellence.
- •Build and improve backend services, infrastructure tooling, and shared platform capabilities.
- •Requirements Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale backend platforms and distributed systems.
- •Deep expertise in building, scaling, and modernizing production Django applications.
- •Expert-level experience architecting and operating cloud environments within AWS.
- •Proven ability to design resilient, secure, and scalable systems.
- •Advanced knowledge of Postgres architecture, performance optimization, and data modeling.
Required skills
DjangoAWSPostgreSQLPythonTechnical LeadershipMentoringCI/CDDockerKubernetes
Domain expertise
proptech
Tech stack
PythonDjangoAWSPostgreSQLDockerKubernetesCI/CDGit