Staff Platform Engineer
OpenSeaNFT Marketplace company
Remote$190,000 - $345,000 USD or $161,500 - $293,250 USDLead
Andreessen Horowitz
Paradigm
Coatue
Y Combinator
1confirmation
Blockchain Capital
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Build and evolve the technical foundations powering OpenSea's products with a focus on AI.
- •OpenSea is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to build and evolve the technical foundations powering their products.
- •This role focuses on designing and maintaining platform services, infrastructure, and internal tooling to enable engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate products reliably and at scale, with a strong emphasis on AI-enabled workflows.
- •Key Responsibilities Design, build, and evolve platform services, infrastructure, and internal tooling.
- •Own complex technical systems, balancing scalability, reliability, and developer experience.
- •Implement best-in-class observability, monitoring, and alerting.
- •Maintain and improve AI skills & tools for system accessibility and contribution.
- •Accelerate CI coverage for correctness and AI verifiability.
- •Requirements 7+ years of software engineering experience in large-scale backend or platform systems.
- •Strong fluency in JVM languages like Kotlin or Java.
- •Experience designing and operating distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
- •Demonstrated ability to own and solve complex technical problems.
Required skills
KotlinJavaKubernetesDockerCI/CDMicroservices
Nice-to-have skills
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptGoRustTerraformGraphQL
Domain expertise
cryptodeveloper-toolsai
Benefits & perks
Health Benefits, Flexible Time Off Policy, Parental Leave, Mental Health, Company Holidays, 401K Plan, Internet/Mobile Reimbursement Plan, Reimbursement or Monthly Snack Delivery, Company & Team retreats, Co-Working and Gathering Expense, MacBook Pro & WFH Stipend, Weekly Uber Eats credit
Tech stack
KotlinJavaKubernetesDockerCI/CD