# Staff Software Engineer - Platform at OpenSea

- Company: OpenSea
- What the company does: OpenSea, exchange everything — token trading and NFT marketplace. Welcome to the best place to discover, trade, and create onchain. Backed by Y Combinator and a16z.
- Company website: https://opensea.io
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote US or Remote EU
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $190K to $345K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-12
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/opensea/8c242715-3ea6-47e9-8a9c-9972b57683a7
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/opensea-staff-software-engineer-platform/

## About the role

In the age of AI, Platform teams have two main roles - architect, build, and maintain critical systems, and enable the rest of the team to work safely and productively across your areas of ownership. Our goal is to make the systems protect themselves and enable everyone to build quickly. Design, build, and evolve the platform services, infrastructure, and internal tooling that power OpenSea's products

## What they're looking for

- 7+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale backend or platform systems
- Strong fluency in JVM languages such as Kotlin or Java
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems, backend services, and modern cloud infrastructure
- Strong understanding of platform engineering principles, developer tooling, CI/CD, observability, and operational best practices
- Demonstrated ability to own complex, ambiguous technical problems and deliver thoughtful, scalable solutions
- Excitement for making independent technical decisions balancing reliability, scalability, performance, and long-term maintainability

Tags: Engineering