# Staff Platform Engineer at Prefect

- Company: Prefect
- What the company does: Orchestrate workflows with Prefect. Connect AI agents to your tools and data with Horizon. Open-source foundations, production-ready platforms. Backed by Bessemer.
- Company website: https://www.prefect.io
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $214K to $309K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-17
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/prefect/77b15c02-eb1c-45f2-baf4-177657921220
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/prefect-staff-platform-engineer/

## About the role

Establish strategies for maintaining a high quality of service , including identifying appropriate service-level indicators and defining suitable error budgets Bring strong technical judgment to ambiguous problems , including when to prototype, when to harden, and how to make tradeoffs visible.

## What they're looking for

- Experience operating and optimizing large-scale distributed systems in production, including tools and techniques like observability and self-healing, to ensure that we can operate our systems reliably and in a sustainable way
- Expertise managing production services in cloud environments, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Experience with monitoring tools such as DataDog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry
- Experience operating production systems in a high-growth startup environment
- Familiarity with declarative techniques for managing production infrastructure safely with modern Infrastructure as Code tools, such as Kubernetes and Terraform

Tags: Engineering