Senior Platform Engineer
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
About Campus
At Campus weve built a two-year accredited college where students learn from top professors at universities like Princeton Stanford and Howard in live online classes. Our students graduate with in-demand business and AI skillsready to launch their careers or transfer to top four-year universities. Our unique approach is grounded in a pioneering technology platform and a heavily-researched student success model that offers students dedicated advisors and on-demand tutoring and coaching. We were also named one of Fast Companys Most Innovative Companies of 2024.
Were backed by an exceptional investor team that believes deeply in our vision for the future of education including General Catalyst Founders Fund Bloomberg Beta 8VC Rethink Education Sam Altman Jason Citron Shaquille ONeal and others.
The world has changed. Higher ed needs to catch up and were leading the way - come join us!
About the Role
Were building a world-class engineering organization and this role is a foundational member of our Platform function. As a Senior Platform Engineer (Generalist) youll work across backend services cloud infrastructure and data pipelines to ensure Campus can scale reliably securely and with high developer velocity.
This is a hybrid role spanning backend engineering data engineering and infrastructure. Youll build backend systems shape our data workflows design infrastructure maintain CI/CD and create the internal tools that accelerate engineering. If you love owning systems end-to-end improving developer experience and solving technical problems that unlock product velocity youll thrive here.
Our stack includes GCP Terraform Docker GitHub Actions Go Python PostgreSQL BigQuery Kubernetes-style runtimes Datadog and PostHog but were open to new ideas and technologies that help us scale.
Youre excited about this opportunity because you will
Ship backend systems that power admissions financial aid registrar workflows reporting and real-time student experiences
Build and maintain data pipelines and ingestion flows supporting analytics product and operational automation
Own CI/CD and deployment workflows to ensure fast reliable releases across backend mobile and frontend
Design and scale our cloud infrastructure using GCP and Terraform
Improve developer experience and data scientist experience tools environments testing workflows and internal automations
Partner across engineering (backend mobile data product) to accelerate delivery and reduce operational friction
Strengthen security & compliance through better access control audit-ready logging secrets management and hardened infrastructure
Why were excited about you
You have 510 years of experience as a backend engineer platform engineer DevOps/SRE engineer or data engineer
Youve built and maintained production services pipelines and cloud infrastructure at scale
Youre strong in Go and you design backend systems for reliability and clarity
You have hands-on experience with GCP Terraform Docker and CI/CD tooling
You care deeply about reliability performance graceful degradation and observability
You have experience with data pipelines warehouses or operational data workflows
Youre curious and growth-oriented always learning improving and raising the engineering bar
You communicate clearly and work collaboratively with low ego
What youll get:
A compensation package that includes a base salary ($170K - $205K) equity grant
Actual compensation within the pay range will be decided based on factors including but not limited to skills prior relevant experience and specific work location. For roles that are available to be filled remotely base salary will be localized.
Medical dental and vision insurance
401(k) match
Fertility benefits via Carrot
Flexible Time Away paid holidays
In-office lunches for our NY Office (did we mention were dog friendly )
Hybrid work schedule (Mon & Fri remote; Tues-Thurs in-office)
Social events - happy hours birthday celebrations holiday parties & more!
Opportunity to make an impact youll be an integral player in bringing our vision to life
Where were located: Tribeca NY
Unfortunately we are unable to offer new H-1B visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must already be authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring new H-1B sponsorship. However we can support H-1B transfers and are able to sponsor TN visas for eligible Canadian and Mexican citizens.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- APIs
- C/C++
- Computer Graphics
- Go
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Library Services
- Assembly
- GraphQL
- High Voltage
About Company
Campus is an online college with professors who also teach at top universities. Explore our career focused associates degree and certificate programs.
