Staff Software Engineer – Platform

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Sharp Performance

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2023

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Sharp Performance is a company that provides performance coaching and resilience training for first responders and other high-risk professionals. Developed by U. S. special operators and sports psychologists, Sharp delivers one-on-one coaching, daily training exercises, and centralized resources via a coaching platform to improve mental readiness, stress management, and job performance. The company sells its services to agencies and teams and offers a technology-driven program to support officer wellness, retention, and sustained peak performance.

📋 Description

• Co-own the architecture and long-term health of the core Laravel platform, database, API, background jobs, and internal admin tooling • Build platform foundations including stable APIs and contracts, CI/CD, environments, feature flags, observability, and on-call readiness • Lead scaling work across databases, queues, caching, and third-party integrations • Decide where to retain the monolith and where service, queue, or event boundaries are appropriate • Document architectural decisions and safely implement migrations • Make the platform agent-ready with bounded modules, fast CI, reliable test environments, and safe, auditable agent access to production evidence • Harden reliability and security through multi-tenant data isolation, access controls, audit trails, and incident response supporting SOC 2 • Collaborate with C-Squad engineers through design and code reviews, mentoring, and unblocking • Partner with product and other squads on roadmap trade-offs between platform and feature work • Set technical direction, write production code, and improve how the squad designs, ships, and operates software

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years building and running production backend systems, with recent time at staff or lead level • Product mindset and ability to shape the roadmap with product and design • Deep platform engineering experience owning infrastructure, deployment pipeline, and runtime of a growing product • Track record of scaling a system through real growth • Strong relational database skills with MySQL or PostgreSQL, including schema design, query tuning, indexing, and migrations on live data • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, containers, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD • Experience with asynchronous and distributed patterns, including queues, workers, webhooks, idempotency, and retries • Ability to lead through influence and set technical direction • Daily, hands-on use of AI coding agents • Experience building agent tooling or harnesses, including skills, MCP servers, eval loops, or agent guardrails • Clear written communication and ability to explain technical trade-offs • PHP and Laravel experience is nice to have, including Horizon, Nova, and queues • Strong engineers from Go, Python, Ruby, Node, Java, or similar backgrounds may ramp quickly • Experience breaking up or modernizing a monolith without a big-bang rewrite • Observability tooling experience, such as Sentry or Datadog • Production incident response experience • SOC 2, HIPAA, or other production compliance experience • Experience integrating scheduling, calendar, SMS, or email providers at volume

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Flexible PTO • 401(k) with company match • Access to the same performance coaches offered to clients • Remote-first, async-friendly work environment

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