Top Platform Engineer Jobs in Seattle, WA

Own and administer Zeno’s AWS-based engineering computing environment, including cloud workstations, HPC resources, storage, networking, access, licensing, and specialized engineering applications. Translate engineering needs into technical requirements, support users, manage software procurement, troubleshoot infrastructure and licensing issues, and maintain security and compliance documentation. The role is hybrid in Seattle, requires less than 10% travel, and has a six-month contract duration.

Lead the strategy, architecture, development, and operation of company-wide data and AI platforms. Drive scalable data platform solutions, technical direction, architecture standards, multi-geographical pipelines, ETL frameworks, metrics stores, infrastructure, and data security. Mentor engineers and scientists, influence technology roadmaps, collaborate across teams, and promote technical excellence. The role also involves designing modern lakehouse systems, evaluating technologies, and building reliable high-performance services and frameworks.

Lead the design, development, and operation of highly available, multi-tenant data platform services on Kubernetes, including Postgres, messaging, streaming, and key-value systems. Define distributed-systems architecture, failover, disaster recovery, scalability, observability, and SLOs. Build operators, controllers, automation, and self-service APIs; lead major technical initiatives; resolve reliability risks; collaborate across engineering teams; and mentor engineers.

Build and operate cloud-native data platform components and services, including Kubernetes operators, controllers, automation, and platform services. Lead technical projects from requirements through production, ensuring reliability, scalability, observability, testing, and operational readiness. Collaborate with senior engineers on architecture and standards, participate in on-call, and mentor junior engineers. The role requires extensive Kubernetes, hyperscaler, Go, container, CI/CD, GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code experience.

Lead full-stack development for Huntress’s SOC platform, building analyst-facing investigation, triage, remediation, queueing, and customer reporting experiences. Shape architecture, data models, interfaces, security practices, reliability, observability, and testing while mentoring engineers and partnering with Product, UX, and SOC stakeholders. The role emphasizes Ruby on Rails, modern frontend development, cloud infrastructure, relational databases, and technical leadership across complex cybersecurity software products.

Own and operate core platform systems for hosted agent orchestration, including Beads Team Server, cloud-based Gas City, billing, permissions, and SSO. Design for distributed state, concurrency, reliability, observability, backups, security, and production failure recovery. Build primarily in Go across storage, runtimes, containers, and cloud infrastructure while collaborating closely with the CTO and startup team.

Design, build, and operate scalable backend services and distributed systems supporting live streaming, content, personalization, analytics, and operational tooling. Responsibilities include API and data modeling, cloud infrastructure, event-driven architectures, observability, CI/CD, performance optimization, reliability, security, and production troubleshooting. Collaborate with mobile, video, data, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver highly available services across Tennis Channel platforms.

Build and lead development of a fintech platform supporting ledgers, payments, banking and lending integrations, and money flows. Design fault-tolerant systems of record with bank-grade reliability, guide engineering tradeoffs, coach engineers, and scale financial products using Go, TypeScript, AWS, PostgreSQL, Temporal, Grafana, and LLMs.

Design, build, and operate large-scale, highly available platform services across GitHub (Actions, Enterprise AI, Identity, Billing, Git systems, database infrastructure). Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, own architecture and APIs, participate in on-call incident response, drive reliability, security, testing, and roadmap decisions across cross-functional teams.

Build and operate Resend’s scalable AWS platform, infrastructure, tooling, and self-service workflows. Responsibilities include infrastructure as code, platform standards, observability, reliability improvements, incident response, automation, and collaboration with engineers across the company. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, networking, delivery pipelines, and production operations, with opportunities to work on high-throughput systems and developer tooling.

Design, build, and operate distributed platform services and APIs using TypeScript and Go. Improve scalability, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency; develop data-intensive workflows and event-driven pipelines; manage SLIs/SLOs, incident response, CI/CD, and production releases. Partner with product teams on end-to-end delivery, write design documents and tests, and participate in on-call rotations for large-scale systems.

Build and operate Python and FastAPI platform services powering healthcare workflows, while developing end-to-end frontend features with JavaScript, TypeScript, and React. Responsibilities include API design, data modeling, system integrations, reliability, observability, performance improvements, code reviews, mentoring, and project ownership from design through launch. The role partners with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver secure, maintainable, accessible solutions.

Lead the architecture and evolution of Plenful’s frontend UX platform, including shared components, design system foundations, developer tooling, and reusable infrastructure. Build user experiences with TypeScript and React, integrate APIs using Python and FastAPI, and establish standards for accessibility, performance, testing, and maintainability. Collaborate with design, product, and engineering teams, mentor engineers, review technical designs, and drive frontend improvements across multiple teams.

Build and operate scalable backend and distributed systems for Baseten’s AI inference platform. Responsibilities include telemetry pipelines, observability platforms, billing and commercialization systems, partnership integrations, developer tooling, CI/CD, AI agent infrastructure, testing strategy, reliability improvements, and cross-team technical leadership. The role also involves mentoring engineers, improving developer experience, and partnering across infrastructure, model performance, and product teams.

Build and operate Baseten’s partner platform by leading integrations with model labs, hyperscalers, developer platforms, and infrastructure companies. Design APIs, service boundaries, provisioning, identity, inference, metering, billing, observability, and reusable integration primitives. Collaborate directly with partner engineering, Product, and Partnerships teams while writing substantial production code, managing cross-team delivery, and ensuring reliability through testing, safe rollouts, failure handling, and measurable service-level objectives.

Build customer-facing enterprise products and platforms for Baseten’s AI inference infrastructure. Own features end to end, including customer discovery, design, development, launch, and iteration. Develop scalable systems supporting billing, partnerships, enterprise identity and governance, developer productivity, and agentic tooling. Collaborate closely with product, design, engineering, and go-to-market teams while prioritizing customer impact and solving ambiguous problems independently.

Build and lead development of high-availability backend services for Affirm’s card loan platform. Design scalable APIs, data models, microservices, and event-driven systems supporting real-time loan attribution, approvals, origination, and refunds. Drive technical strategy, troubleshoot complex performance issues, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and mentor engineers while ensuring long-term system robustness and scalability.

Build and maintain low-code solutions with Microsoft Power Platform, PowerApps, and Power Automate for federal modernization efforts. Support frontend and backend development, translate ambiguous requirements into working products, troubleshoot complex issues, participate in code reviews, and collaborate with product managers, designers, and stakeholders in a remote Agile environment.

Architect and deliver high-performance, scalable platform services across GitHub (Actions, Identity, Billing, Git systems, DB infra). Lead design through production, mentor engineers, own reliability and on-call responsibilities, design APIs, collaborate cross-functionally, drive roadmaps, and champion security and operational excellence.

Design, build, test, and operate high-throughput distributed backend services for Remitly’s global money movement platform. Own data models, APIs, configuration-driven systems, migrations, routing intelligence, observability, and production reliability. Collaborate with product, operations, analytics, ML, Treasury, and partner teams while supporting Tier-1 services, compliance controls, technical strategy, and responsible AI-assisted development.

Leads end-to-end power and performance characterization for Azure compute and AI platforms. Analyzes interactions across silicon, servers, firmware, operating systems, accelerators, workloads, thermals, and datacenter infrastructure. Develops performance-per-watt and power-management optimizations, profiles cloud and AI workloads, builds telemetry methodologies, diagnoses cross-layer issues, and influences platform architecture, capacity planning, rack density, and fleet efficiency. Provides technical leadership across multiple programs from investigation through production deployment.

Designs, configures, operates, and optimizes the enterprise ServiceNow platform. Responsibilities include developing workflows, integrations, automations, Agentic AI capabilities, and self-service tools; troubleshooting complex issues; supporting releases and incidents; conducting security and configuration audits; maintaining knowledge articles and SOPs; managing ticket queues, SLAs, Agile backlogs, and sprint priorities; and presenting platform metrics to IT management. Provides technical leadership, governance, mentoring, and long-term platform strategy.

Lead architecture, development, scaling, and reliability for SingleStore Helios, a multi-cloud SaaS platform. Design Kubernetes operators, controllers, networking, routing, and distributed control planes across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Build resilient Go and Python systems, support AI and vector workloads, resolve complex Tier-3 production incidents, and maintain compliance controls. Mentor engineers, author architecture documents, and influence cross-functional technical strategy.

Build AI platform infrastructure and developer tooling, including API gateways, model routing, integrations, observability, retrieval, caching, and model-serving systems. Develop APIs, microservices, SDKs, and internal tools that connect proprietary real estate data and AI models to production applications. Collaborate with ML engineers, contribute to architecture decisions, and own features through deployment and monitoring.

Designs, implements, and troubleshoots large-scale platform deployment automations supporting DoD ABMS and JADC2 systems. The role integrates technologies into secure orchestrated solutions, develops installation and testing procedures, automates infrastructure and system management, maintains containerized PaaS environments, documents technical processes, and participates in Agile ceremonies. Responsibilities include DevSecOps, GitOps, infrastructure as code, Linux administration, virtualization, networking, and configuration management.