Platform Tech Lead

• Shaping the technical direction and architecture of a developer-focused platform, balancing scalability, developer experience, and business goals
• Collaborating closely with engineering teams to define platform capabilities, prioritize initiatives, and make architecture-informed product decisions
• Driving the evolution of a cloud-native platform built on Kubernetes, AWS, and modern infrastructure tooling
• Designing intuitive developer workflows that simplify application deployment, operations, and platform adoption
• Contributing to platform architecture, including areas such as multi-tenancy, deployment pipelines, identity and access management, and platform security
• Supporting the development of internal platform capabilities, including build and deployment systems, observability, and developer tooling
• Working in a fast-paced environment, rapidly validating ideas, delivering new capabilities, and iterating based on feedback
• Contributing hands-on to the codebase when needed, helping the team solve complex technical challenges

Key requirements:

• Experience as Technical Product Owner, Tech Lead, Platform Engineer, or similar; building/evolving developer platforms (Railway, Vercel, Netlify, or similar)
• Understanding of cloud-native technologies (AWS, Kubernetes, containers, deployment pipelines) and platform architecture (multi-tenancy, control plane vs. data plane, developer workflows)
• Experience building products from 0→1 or in early-stage scaling environments
• Translate complex infrastructure into intuitive developer experiences; collaborate with engineering teams, make architecture-informed decisions
• Hands-on software engineering with TypeScript, NestJS, or similar
• Understanding of API design, DX, IAM, security, and FinOps

Nice to have:

• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes; familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry; experience with CI/CD, internal developer platforms, Git-based workflows
• Knowledge of billing, metering, usage-based pricing; familiarity with edge computing, CDNs, high-performance networking; experience building developer tools, APIs, platform products
• Experience applying GenAI in SDLC (workflows, prompt patterns, tool integrations) and interest in emerging AI-driven practices (automation, documentation, workflow optimization)