Senior/Staff Platform Software Engineer
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Location: New York, NY 10025
Description:
As a Platform Engineer at Privy, you will help define how we build, deploy, and scale services that power tens of millions of users across thousands of customers-all within a rapidly growing engineering team.
We believe that platform engineering is where backend engineering meets infrastructure engineering; it's about building the right abstractions, APIs, and developer tools that make shipping code seamless and scalable.
What you'll do
What we're looking for
Bonus points if you have...
Engineering at Privy
Engineering at Privy is not just about writing world-class code. We create software that turns complex technical systems into delightful developer tools. We assemble tried-and-true primitives into intuitive, responsive APIs and beautiful interfaces. We believe in open-source work and transparency with our teammates and users. We encourage each other to think big, run experiments and follow our curiosity so we can build better tooling that lets developers shine and empowers their users.
Privy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of background, identity, or status.
We believe that platform engineering is where backend engineering meets infrastructure engineering; it's about building the right abstractions, APIs, and developer tools that make shipping code seamless and scalable.
What you'll do
- Build and evolve core backend services and API platforms that serve billions of requests per month
- Design and maintain the systems that underpin our engineering velocity-deployment pipelines, CI/CD, and internal developer tools
- Lead efforts in observability, performance tuning, and reliability across our stack
- Shape our approach to scaling and securing multi-tenant architecture
- Advocate for strategic technical investments, balancing near-term shipping speed with long-term sustainability
- Design and implement product features end-to-end, driven by user needs
What we're looking for
- Experience building and maintaining a production system at scale
- An understanding of modern API development best practices and design
- Experience in building data models, managing database migrations and best practices, and infrastructure configuration
- Experience writing delightful developer documentation
- As comfortable writing APIs and logic as you are writing infrastructure-as-code
Bonus points if you have...
- Experience with React, Typescript, Next.js, AWS/Terraform, Vercel
- Past experience working in authentication or security
Engineering at Privy
Engineering at Privy is not just about writing world-class code. We create software that turns complex technical systems into delightful developer tools. We assemble tried-and-true primitives into intuitive, responsive APIs and beautiful interfaces. We believe in open-source work and transparency with our teammates and users. We encourage each other to think big, run experiments and follow our curiosity so we can build better tooling that lets developers shine and empowers their users.
Privy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of background, identity, or status.