Staff Platform Engineer - VC Backed Startups
Staff Platform Engineer - VC Backed Startups
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USD 170000 - 250000
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Job Description
Join SignalFires Talent Network for Staff Platform Engineer Roles at VCBacked Startups
At SignalFire we partner with top earlystage startups that are shaping the future of technology. Our portfolio spans 200 innovative companies across AI cybersecurity healthtech fintech developer tools and enterprise SaaS.
Were looking to connect with exceptional Staff Platform Engineers who are excited about leading platform DevOps and site reliability initiatives at highgrowth startups. By joining SignalFires Talent Network your profile will be shared with our portfolio companies giving you visibility into exclusive earlystage opportunities that may not be publicly listed.
This is not an application for a specific job. Instead this is a way to get on the radar of VCbacked startups that are actively hiring AI/ML talent. If you have any questions please direct inquiries to
Who Should Join
Were looking for engineers who are:
Passionate about building and optimizing cloud infrastructure developer platforms and reliability systems
Experienced in leading DevOps infrastructure and platform engineering teams
Excited about driving cloud automation scalability security and performance
Typical Roles & Responsibilities
Architect and lead the development of scalable secure and highly available infrastructure
Build and optimize internal developer platforms to enhance efficiency in CI/CD observability and deployment processes
Own and improve Kubernetes container orchestration and service mesh implementations
Implement infrastructureascode (IaC) solutions for automated scalable environments
Establish monitoring alerting and logging best practices to improve system reliability
Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure resilient scalable and costeffective cloud architectures
Lead incident response strategies disaster recovery and system availability improvements
Mentor junior engineers and establish best practices for platform DevOps and SRE
Common Qualifications
While each startup has its own hiring criteria many staff platform engineering roles in our network look for:
6 years of experience in platform engineering DevOps SRE or cloud infrastructure
Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS GCP Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes Docker)
Experience with infrastructureascode (Terraform Pulumi CloudFormation) and configuration management (Ansible Chef Puppet)
Strong knowledge of CI/CD automation (Jenkins ArgoCD GitHub Actions CircleCI Spinnaker)
Understanding of networking load balancing and security in distributed environments (Envoy Istio Linkerd)
Expertise in observability logging and monitoring tools (Prometheus Grafana Datadog New Relic OpenTelemetry)
Strong experience in performance optimization automated scaling and cloud cost management
Proficiency in Python Golang Bash or TypeScript for automation and tooling
Experience in leading technical decisions architecture and mentoring engineers
Background in highavailability faulttolerant and distributed systems
Technologies You Might Work With:
Cloud & Orchestration: AWS (EKS ECS Lambda) GCP (GKE Cloud Run) Azure Kubernetes Docker
InfrastructureasCode: Terraform Pulumi AWS CloudFormation Ansible Chef Puppet
CI/CD & Automation: Jenkins GitHub Actions CircleCI ArgoCD Spinnaker FluxCD
Networking & Security: Envoy Istio Linkerd Cloudflare AWS WAF IAM Vault Open Policy Agent
Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus Grafana Datadog New Relic OpenTelemetry Sentry
Databases & Storage: PostgreSQL MySQL DynamoDB Redis S3 BigQuery
Programming & Scripting: Python Golang Bash TypeScript YAML
What Happens Next
Submit your application to join SignalFires Talent Ecosystem.
We review applications on an ongoing basis to identify strong candidates.
If theres a match a SignalFire talent partner or a leader from one of our startups may reach out directly.
No match yet Well keep your profile on file for future platform engineering roles in our portfolio.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
