Platform Engineer in United Estate

Senior Backend/Platform Engineer - Series A Infrastructure Startup

New York, NY (On-site) | $200k - $250k + Equity

Transform How Companies Handle Infrastructure at Scale

Join a profitable Series A company ($20M+ raised) that's revolutionizing infrastructure maintenance and automation. We're building the intelligence platform that sits across entire infrastructure stacks - turning chaos into clarity when systems break.

The Impact You'll Make

Own the core engine that powers our AI-driven investigation platform:

• Scale distributed systems that ingest metrics, logs, traces, and code
• Design architecture that reduces incident response from 45 minutes to 5 minutes
• Build the backbone for a product saving enterprise customers millions in downtime costs
• Work directly with founders in a mission-driven, engineering-first culture

What Sets This Apart

Real Problem, Real Impact: Every CTO knows maintenance is eating their engineering hours - you're building the solution

Profitable & Growing: 2-3M ARR foundation with enterprise customers already paying

Small but Mighty: ~16 person team where your work directly shapes the product

NYC Energy: Beautiful new office in Chelsea, team dinners, collaborative culture

Career Trajectory: Person #17 at a company positioned for significant growth

You Bring

4-8 years engineering experience with 2+ years in hyperscaling environments

Proven track record seeing systems scale 10x (data volume, team size, or complexity)

TypeScript production expertise and distributed systems architecture

Startup DNA - comfort with ambiguity, ownership mentality, rapid iteration

Battle scars from on-call experience (you've felt the pain we're solving)

Ideal Background

Coming from high-growth fintech, AI-native, or infrastructure startups during their scaling phases. Experience at companies that saw explosive growth in transaction volume and system complexity during critical growth periods.

Ready to build the future of infrastructure reliability?

Confidential opportunity represented by specialist recruitment partner. Visa sponsorship available.