Backend Platform Engineer

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $136.7k - $182.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Spin Master

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1994

📣 Marketing

🏭 Manufacturing

💰 Post-IPO Secondary on 2022-11

Marketing • Manufacturing • Entertainment

Spin Master is a global entertainment company that reimagines play through its innovative toys, games, entertainment content, and digital games. The company is well-known for its creativity and passion, offering engaging experiences such as the PAW Patrol franchise and Hatchimals Alive series. Spin Master is recognized in the industry with multiple Toy of the Year nominations, highlighting its continued influence in creating magical play experiences for children and families. The company also collaborates with celebrities and offers digital play through cutting-edge apps, making it a leader in the toy and game sector.

📋 Description

• Own the API and job queues that every sticker request runs through • Maintain and improve the real-time connection layer for devices • Tune and extend autoscaling for holiday spikes and fleet growth • Partner with the ML Serving engineer on GPU inference • Mature observability through metrics, logs, tracing and alerts • Build cost instrumentation for requests, models and services • Own release engineering for server-side services, including safe deploys, database migrations and rollback • Partner with Trust & Safety on abuse prevention, device security and privacy • Share on-call responsibilities and reduce incidents over time • Harden, scale and establish standards for backend infrastructure

🎯 Requirements

• Depth in Python and PostgreSQL • Elixir experience, or real interest in learning it • Experience owning production infrastructure end to end • Experience scaling a queue-driven or real-time system through an order of magnitude of traffic growth • Comfortable being paged for systems you own • Ability to work on backend systems that are fast, safe for kids and affordable at scale

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision coverage • Retirement savings programs • Paid time off • Paid holidays • Wellness resources • Life and disability insurance • Employee assistance programs • Other company-sponsored benefits • Reasonable accommodation during the hiring process • Opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers