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Staff Platform Engineer

Ciridae · San Francisco · On-site

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About Ciridae

Backed by Accel and a16z.

About the role

What you own: The architecture and evolution of Crucible. You will co-own its technical roadmap alongside Ciridae’s other senior engineers and build the deployment systems, developer tooling, services, and abstractions that power customer applications. Success means expanding Crucible’s capabilities so FDEs can build more and deploy faster.

What they're looking for

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant ownership of platform infrastructure, deployment systems, or developer tooling
  • Staff-level impact through technical direction, cross-team influence, and delivery of complex systems from design through production
  • Strong programming skills in Go, Python, TypeScript, or a similar language, with experience designing and operating distributed, multi-tenant, or cloud-native systems
  • Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, containers, and CI/CD, and multi-cloud or customer-hosted deployments
  • Strong grounding in APIs, service boundaries, data stores, networking, identity and access management, secrets management, secure software delivery, and production observability
  • A track record of improving developer experience, deployment speed, platform adoption, or reliability, diagnosing live issues, and fixing recurring problems at the root
More about this role

What you own: The architecture and evolution of Crucible. You will co-own its technical roadmap alongside Ciridae’s other senior engineers and build the deployment systems, developer tooling, services, and abstractions that power customer applications. Success means expanding Crucible’s capabilities so FDEs can build more and deploy faster.

You will also help solve the hardest deployment-specific problems. What begins as a solution for one customer should become an extensible capability, reusable service, or platform pattern that makes future deployments faster and better.

Your ownership continues into production: instrumenting the platform, debugging live issues, improving reliability and security, and eliminating recurring operational problems at the root. You will provide technical leadership through architecture, system design, code review, documentation, and the engineering standards you establish.

What you bring: A strong software engineering foundation and experience building production platforms, deployment systems, and developer tooling that engineers rely on. You understand how to design extensible systems that work across varied cloud and customer-hosted environments...

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