Staff Platform Engineer
About The Position
We’re building a world-class engineering organization, and this role is a foundational member of our Platform function. As a Staff Platform Engineer (Generalist), you'll work across backend services, cloud infrastructure, and data pipelines to ensure Campus can scale reliably, securely, and with high developer velocity. This is a hybrid role spanning backend engineering, data engineering, and infrastructure. You’ll build backend systems, shape our data workflows, design infrastructure, maintain CI/CD, and create the internal tools that accelerate engineering. If you love owning systems end-to-end, improving developer experience, and solving technical problems that unlock product velocity, you’ll thrive here. Our stack includes GCP, Terraform, Docker, GitHub Actions, Go, Python, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Kubernetes-style runtimes, Datadog, and PostHog — but we’re open to new ideas and technologies that help us scale.
Requirements
- You have 7–10 years of experience as a backend engineer, platform engineer, DevOps/SRE engineer, or data engineer
- You’ve built and maintained production services, pipelines, and cloud infrastructure at scale
- You’re strong in Go or Python and you design backend systems for reliability and clarity
- You have hands-on experience with cloud services (AWS, GCP or Azure), Terraform, Docker, and CI/CD tooling
- You care deeply about reliability, performance, graceful degradation, and observability
Nice To Haves
- You have experience with data pipelines, warehouses, or operational data workflows
- You’re curious and growth-oriented, always learning, improving, and raising the engineering bar
- You communicate clearly and work collaboratively with low ego
Responsibilities
- Ship backend systems that power admissions, financial aid, registrar workflows, reporting, and real-time student experiences
- Build and maintain data pipelines and ingestion flows supporting analytics, product, and operational automation
- Own CI/CD and deployment workflows to ensure fast, reliable releases across backend, mobile, and frontend
- Design and scale our cloud infrastructure using GCP and Terraform
- Improve developer experience and data scientist experience — tools, environments, testing workflows, and internal automations
- Partner across engineering (backend, mobile, data, product) to accelerate delivery and reduce operational friction
- Strengthen security & compliance through better access control, audit-ready logging, secrets management, and hardened infrastructure
Benefits
- A compensation package that includes a base salary ($200K - $235K) + equity grant
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) match
- Fertility benefits via Carrot
- Flexible Time Away + paid holidays
- In-office lunches for our NY Office (did we mention, we’re dog friendly? 🐶)
- Hybrid work schedule (Mon & Fri remote; Tues-Thurs in-office)
- Social events - happy hours, birthday celebrations, holiday parties, & more!
- Opportunity to make an impact – you’ll be an integral player in bringing our vision to life
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1-10 employees
