Senior Platform Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Localize

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2015

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

Localize is a cloud-based, no-code localization and translation management platform that helps businesses quickly translate and localize websites, web and mobile apps, emails, documents, and video subtitles using AI-powered machine translation combined with human review workflows. It integrates via a simple JavaScript tag and supports a wide range of platforms (WordPress, Webflow, Zendesk, ReadMe) and tech stacks (React, Django, Python), offering automated content detection, developer tools, on-page editor, and enterprise-grade security and compliance. Localize targets B2B customers and enterprise teams seeking to scale multilingual experiences, improve global engagement, and reduce translation costs with consultative onboarding and dedicated customer success.

📋 Description

• Own and improve Localize’s technical infrastructure, databases, and platform tooling • Oversee infrastructure across AWS and Cloudflare • Design, build, test, and maintain backend services, APIs, and background processing workflows • Work hands-on across the dashboard, public APIs, legacy workers, and BullMQ workers • Own complex product engineering work from requirements clarification and design through implementation, production validation, and operation • Contribute frontend changes to complete customer-facing solutions • Apply engineering judgment to data modeling, API contracts, asynchronous processing, and failure handling • Diagnose and resolve application performance and reliability issues, including inefficient queries, queue bottlenecks, and search behavior • Improve code quality through automated tests, code reviews, and incremental refactoring • Mentor teammates on backend design, debugging, and operationally sound development • Ensure scalability, reliability, performance, and security of Redis and MongoDB data stores • Own and improve deployment and release processes, including automation, safe rollouts, and rollback procedures • Improve the SDLC through development environments, CI/CD, automated quality and security checks, and release readiness • Lead infrastructure security and SOC 2 Type II compliance activities • Operate technical controls, maintain audit-ready evidence, support audits, and remediate findings • Manage access, vulnerabilities, changes, logging, backups, and recovery controls • Help lead incident response and blameless post-incident reviews • Prioritize infrastructure and SDLC improvements based on customer impact, business priorities, and risk • Monitor uptime and performance using Datadog, ClickHouse, HyperDX, and other tools • Implement infrastructure cost, reliability, and scalability improvements • Maintain detailed infrastructure and dependency documentation and maps • Enhance Developer Experience • Learn and adopt technologies that improve infrastructure efficiency and capabilities • Report directly to the Engineering Manager

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years engineering experience • At least 4 years of experience in a Platform Engineer role • Expertise managing and optimizing AWS infrastructure • Experience with Redis and MongoDB, including configuration, monitoring, optimization, and backup management • Expertise with OpenTofu and Terragrunt infrastructure-as-code tools • Experience with manual or automated deployment and release management • Understanding of CI/CD processes and tools • Hands-on experience securing production infrastructure, including least-privilege access controls, vulnerability remediation, secrets management, and security monitoring • Ability to translate security and compliance requirements into repeatable engineering practices • Experience maintaining control-operation evidence and supporting SOC 2 Type II audit readiness and remediation • Experience improving the SDLC with product engineers • Customer-obsessed, business-aligned approach • Skills optimizing infrastructure and application performance, reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency • Senior-level backend engineering experience designing, shipping, and maintaining production features and services • Strong proficiency with Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript, including API development, asynchronous programming, automated testing, and production debugging • Experience designing application data models and reliable background jobs, including safe retries, idempotency, and failure recovery • Ability to reason about application, database, and queue performance and correctness • Ability to work across backend and frontend boundaries • Ability to communicate designs and tradeoffs clearly and provide constructive code reviews • Proficiency in command-line scripting • Disaster recovery planning, including data integrity and availability during emergencies • Experience with APM and logging tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Sentry, or Kibana • Previous experience working in a remote position is a must • Nice-to-have: TypeScript, React, Mongoose, LESS • Nice-to-have: production LLM integrations, prompt/context engineering, token management, RAG, embeddings, vector search, MCP, tool/function calling, and agents

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • 401(k) plan + 4% matching • 100% company-paid health, dental, and vision insurance • Company-paid life insurance and AD&D insurance • Work anywhere in North America (100% remote) • New Macbook (or computer of your choice) • Monthly stipend for home internet costs • Generous PTO package • Professional growth opportunities • Healthy work-life balance • Full benefits package