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Senior Platform Engineer (Onsite - SF)

Seam · San Francisco, CA · On-site

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About Seam

API for IoT Devices. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our 3-person platform squad. You'll own the systems that make our engineering team productive and our APIs reliable. Your focus: build efficient TypeScript tooling that lets engineers ship device integrations in days instead of weeks, create fast testing infrastructure, scale our background workers, and improve observability across our platform. We're growing rapidly into enterprise and need rock-solid infrastructure without sacrificing developer velocity.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years backend engineering with platform/infrastructure focus
  • Expert TypeScript and PostgreSQL (query optimization, scaling)
  • Strong distributed systems and background job processing experience
  • Experience building fast, reliable CI/CD pipelines
  • Infrastructure as code experience ## Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience building developer tooling and frameworks
More about this role

We build IoT infrastructure that powers smart devices globally. If you've used a code to enter an Airbnb, you've probably used Seam. Our customers range from startups to public companies. Platform engineering here is a force multiplier—you'll directly impact every customer and every line of code we ship.

Our team includes alums from Nest, Apple, Stanford, YC. Backed by Tiger Global, Root VC, and founders from Stripe, Plaid, Airbnb.

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our 3-person platform squad. You'll own the systems that make our engineering team productive and our APIs reliable.

Your focus: build efficient TypeScript tooling that lets engineers ship device integrations in days instead of weeks, create fast testing infrastructure, scale our background workers, and improve observability across our platform. We're growing rapidly into enterprise and need rock-solid infrastructure without sacrificing developer velocity.

We value pragmatism over perfection. Ship fast, learn quickly, iterate. You should be comfortable diving deep into TypeScript, optimizing PostgreSQL queries, and teaching the team what you learn.

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