Posted on: 
May 15, 2023
Hybrid or San Francisco
Full Time
Salary:
$135K - $175K

Senior Platform Engineer

Create.xyz

We're looking for an ambitious Senior Platform Engineer to design and build core infrastructure that sets the company on a trajectory to scale to hundreds of developers and customers.

Description

Our core mission at Create is to give everyone the power of software creation. Our vision is to make it possible to simply describe what you want and have it instantly created. We're making that vision a reality by helping companies ship new products faster through our code generation system and access to a global network of developers supercharged with our tools.

Position description

We're looking for an ambitious Senior Platform Engineer to design and build core infrastructure that sets the company on a trajectory to scale to hundreds of developers and customers. The infrastructure you build will increase the leverage our growing network of developers can apply against delivering software products fast.

Full job offer description

You will:

-Build developer tooling and infrastructure that makes the average engineer in Create's network more productive per unit time spend than engineers inside much larger, iconic, eng-led companies
-Design key systems and infrastructure that allow us to manage a fleet of 100s of heterogeneous production customer apps
-Engineer around our innovations in AI code generation to make them simple for developers to apply to common production eng tasks
-Establish golden paths for modern developer operations (e.g. IaC, env management, feature flags, data migrations, etc.) and launch tools that smooth all stages of the dev life cycle (task management, feature development, PR reviews, delivery)

Your values:

-Think like an owner. If you weren’t joining Create, you’d probably start your own company.
-Ship code daily. You are a doer who takes ownership and moves the ball forward relentlessly.
-Curiosity. You possess a deep understanding of the technologies you use and constantly seek out new technologies that can help you achieve your goals.  
-Extreme work ethic and high-performance team mindset. You work hard and see work as a path to excellence and continuous growth.
-Developer centricity. You have deep empathy for developers and love the leverage it unlocks when you make their lives easier

You have:

-4+ years of production experience on a platform or infrastructure team
-Expertise in at least 1 of the following programming languages: Python, Go, Typescript
-Experience with automating infrastructure and cloud services using Infrastructure as a Code tools like Terraform
-Experience with container provisioning (Docker, Kubernetes)
-Strong experience writing code and building systems that automate or speed up the entire development and production application lifecycle (task management, dev setups, secret management, feature development, testing, PR review, feature flags, release and deployment, security, monitoring, etc.)

Nice to Have:

-Strong experience with Typescript and modern web app ecosystem (React, GraphQL, Node, etc.)
-Experience writing developer CLIs
-Experience with Github Bots
-Strong Experience with Terraform
-Strong Experience with AWS

We offer:

-Competitive salary
-Generous equity
-Unlimited PTO
-Medical, dental and vision coverage
-401K plan
-Continuous growth
-High autonomy

Create.xyz

Create.xyz is a software product studio

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