Staff Platform Engineer

Prefect
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 214,000 - 309,000 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["Technical judgment","Independent judgment","Communication","Mentoring","Ownership"]

Build and scale Prefect Cloud’s next-generation agentic orchestration platform. You’ll establish service-quality strategies (SLIs, error budgets), make sound tradeoffs in ambiguous problems, and lead operationally mature work across reliability, on-call, and incident response. Improve user experience through performance engineering, observability, and automation enhancements, while raising the team’s technical bar through design feedback, code reviews, and mentoring—using AI-assisted development tools to accelerate planning and execution.

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Staff Platform Engineer

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Job Summary

Build and scale Prefect Cloud’s next-generation agentic orchestration platform. You’ll establish service-quality strategies (SLIs, error budgets), make sound tradeoffs in ambiguous problems, and lead operationally mature work across reliability, on-call, and incident response. Improve user experience through performance engineering, observability, and automation enhancements, while raising the team’s technical bar through design feedback, code reviews, and mentoring—using AI-assisted development tools to accelerate planning and execution.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Establish strategies for service quality, including defining SLIs and appropriate error budgets.
  • •Apply strong technical judgment to ambiguous problems, including decisions about prototyping vs. hardening.
  • •Lead operationally mature work: write maintainable code, build for reliability, participate in on-call/incident response, and improve owned systems over time.
  • •Identify opportunities to improve customer and internal user experience via performance engineering, observability tooling, and automation improvements.
  • •Raise the technical bar through design feedback, code review, mentoring, and clear written communication.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 214,000 - 309,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:401kPaid LeaveHealth InsuranceDentalVisionRemote WorkParental LeaveLife InsuranceDisability BenefitsEquity

Key Requirements

  • •Experience operating and optimizing large-scale distributed systems in production, including observability and self-healing practices.
  • •Expertise managing production services in cloud environments such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or GCP.
  • •Experience with monitoring and observability tools including DataDog, Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.
  • •Experience operating production systems in a high-growth startup environment.
  • •Familiarity with declarative infrastructure management using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform.
Experience:CloudDistributed systemsStartup
Skills:Technical judgmentIndependent judgmentCommunicationMentoringOwnership
Tech Stack:PythonMCPFastMCPPrefectPrefect OSSPrefect CloudHorizonAWSAzureGCPDataDogGrafanaPrometheusOpenTelemetryObservabilityKubernetesTerraformInfrastructure as CodeOn-callIncident response

Company Brief

Prefect
Open-source workflow orchestration platform that enables data and ML teams to build, schedule, and observe resilient data pipelines and automated workflows across environments.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Headquarters: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Founded: 2018
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