# Staff Platform Engineer at Ciridae

- Company: Ciridae
- What the company does: Backed by Accel and a16z.
- Company website: https://www.ciridae.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-01
- Apply by: 2026-10-16
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ciridae/bea8c5d0-4390-4d27-924e-8dc59fbf9042
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/ciridae-staff-platform-engineer/

## 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

Tags: Engineering