# Staff Platform Engineer at Cortex

- Company: Cortex
- What the company does: Cortex is the Engineering Operations Platform that gives engineering teams the visibility, governance, and golden paths to ship faster with AI, without runaway risk. Backed by Sequoia, Y Combinator and IVP.
- Company website: https://www.cortex.io/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-08-07
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/cortex/jobs/5379820008
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cortex-staff-platform-engineer/

## About the role

We are a mighty group of 80 passionate individuals excited about building a product that developers love. We recently raised $60M in Series C Funding this year led by Scale Ventures (with participation from Sequoia, IVP, and others) to build the Future of Developer Experience. You can read more about it here .

## What they're looking for

- Define architecture and best practices for the platform and infrastructure layer the product is built on
- Own the deploy pipeline and lead the move to a GitOps model (Argo) for fast, safe releases
- Design and harden multi-tenant isolation and blast-radius protection for top-tier customers, including the path to dedicated / single-tenant deployments
- Lead database stabilization and the platform work behind performance, availability, and safe migrations
- Build the infrastructure foundations for compliance-heavy and government deployments (encryption, authentication, boundary and data-flow design)
- Set the standard for observability, on-call, and operational readiness across engineering, and evangelize platform-first thinking

Tags: Engineering