Staff Platform Engineer

🕒 July 16

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $190k - $230k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Postscript

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201 - 500 employees

📣 Marketing

🤝 B2B

🏢 Enterprise

Marketing • B2B • Enterprise

Postscript is a leading SMS marketing platform focused on helping brands grow their audience, create personalized messaging, and drive revenue through SMS communication. With powerful AI features for message optimization and brand insights, Postscript provides tools for creating, sending, and managing SMS campaigns effectively. The platform includes compliance features to ensure adherence to SMS laws, innovative solutions like CashBack for boosting margins, and expert guidance through Postscript Plus to optimize SMS strategies. Postscript stands out for its ability to seamlessly integrate with other customer service and marketing platforms, ensuring a comprehensive approach to customer engagement and retention.

📋 Description

• Own infra topology, scaling and blast-radius boundaries. • Build the validation gates, idempotency checks, drift detectors, and runbooks. • Diagnose novel failures such as consumer lag, DLQs, materialized-view chains. • Own the 500K events/sec target: load testing, tuning, Database sizing, SLOs and alerting. • Own IAM/IRSA, secret rotation, and the auth chain. • Keep skills, runbooks, and agent context in sync with reality. • Lead incidents and capture every fix as a new runbook plus regression test.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years operating production Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (AWS) at scale. • Strong Terraform and GitOps/Kustomize practice. • Real incident-response experience on distributed-systems failures. • You know how Postgres, a columnar store, and a log/streaming bus behave under load. • Comfort working alongside AI agents. • You treat a wrong runbook as a production bug.

🏖️ Benefits

• High growth startup - plenty of room for you to directly impact the company and grow your career! • Work from home (or wherever) • Fun - We’re passionate and enjoy what we do • Competitive compensation and opportunity for equity • Flexible paid time off