# Staff Software Engineer, Platform at Sharp Performance

- Company: Sharp Performance
- What the company does: We're Sharp Performance Sharp Performance exists so that everyone who answers the call has someone in their corner who has walked in their shoes. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://www.sharpperformance.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote (United States)
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-11-02
- Apply by: 2026-12-17
- Apply: https://ats.rippling.com/sharp-performance/jobs/7fc45752-15af-4fe1-850a-666c0daa7993?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/sharp-performance-staff-software-engineer-platform/

## About the role

Sharp Performance runs a 1-1 coaching marketplace. The C-Squad owns the core platform behind it: the backend, data model, and integrations that coaches, managers, and every other squad build on. That platform got us here. Now it needs to scale to support more users and functionality without slowing the teams that depend on it. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years building and running production backend systems, with recent time at staff or lead level
- A product mindset. You care as much about what we build as how we build it. You ask “why” early, push back when something doesn’t serve users, and work with product and design to shape the roadmap, not just execute it
- Deep platform engineering experience: you've owned the infrastructure, deploy pipeline, and runtime of a growing product, not just features on top of it
- A track record of scaling a system through real growth. You can tell us what broke, how you found it, and what you changed
- Strong relational database skills (MySQL or PostgreSQL): schema design, query tuning, indexing, migrations on live data
- Hands-on with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), containers, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/sharp-performance-staff-software-engineer-platform/