# Senior Platform Engineer at Coval

- Company: Coval (YC S24)
- What the company does: Simulation & Evaluation that scales voice and chat AI agents. Backed by Norwest and Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.coval.dev/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-27
- Apply by: 2026-12-11
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/coval/jobs/7w2xgWv-senior-platform-engineer?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/coval-senior-platform-engineer/

## About the role

Own the systems behind Coval’s evaluations. Coval is the evaluation platform for conversational AI: we help enterprise teams simulate before launch, observe in production and review with humans. This role owns the machinery that makes all of it run. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 4+ years building real systems, with Python and AWS as home turf
- Experience with managed services and Terraform, which we use heavily, and the judgment to know when a managed service stops being the right answer
- You’ve operated something under load and know what it feels like when a queue backs up at 2am
- You can look at a half-built system and decide what to finish, what to fix, what to start next and what to buy time on
- High agency: on a small Series A team, nobody writes your tickets. You figure out what matters next and take it there
- Ambitious and kind. As a founding member of the engineering team, you’ll shape the architecture and the standards everyone else builds against

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/coval-senior-platform-engineer/