Techstars Staff Platform Engineer (Fully Remote)
The Role We Need
PadSplit is looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to provide technical leadership for our platform infrastructure and backend architecture as we continue to scale our marketplace. This role will drive platform strategy, improve system reliability and developer productivity, and partner across engineering teams to build secure, scalable solutions that support the company's long-term growth.
The Person We Are Looking For
We're looking for a highly experienced engineer who excels at solving complex technical challenges and influencing engineering direction across multiple teams. You bring deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and backend architecture, while balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution. You are a collaborative leader who enjoys mentoring others, driving technical excellence, and building systems that create lasting business impact.
Here’s What You’ll Do Day-To-Day:
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Platform Strategy – Define and drive the technical roadmap for platform infrastructure, reliability, and scalability initiatives.
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Architecture Leadership – Design and review complex system architectures that support company growth and evolving business needs.
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Technical Direction – Establish engineering standards, best practices, and technical patterns across multiple teams.
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Reliability Ownership – Improve system observability, incident response processes, and operational excellence across the platform.
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Cross-Team Influence – Partner with Engineering, Product, and Design leaders to align technical investments with business priorities.
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Mentorship & Coaching – Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance that elevates engineering capabilities across the organization.
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Platform Development – Build and improve backend services, infrastructure tooling, and shared platform capabilities.
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Risk Management – Identify technical debt, scalability risks, and operational vulnerabilities before they become business constraints.
Here’s What You’ll Need To Be Successful:
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Platform Expertise – Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale backend platforms and distributed systems.
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Django Mastery – Deep expertise building, scaling, and modernizing production Django applications.
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Cloud Architecture – Expert-level experience architecting and operating cloud environments within AWS.
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Systems Design – Proven ability to design resilient, secure, and scalable systems that support significant business growth.
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Database Leadership – Advanced knowledge of Postgres architecture, performance optimization, and data modeling.
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Operational Excellence – Experience building observability, monitoring, incident management, and reliability practices.
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Technical Influence – Demonstrated success driving engineering decisions and influencing technical direction across teams.
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Mentorship & Communication – Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts and develop other engineers.
The Interview Process:
- Your application will be reviewed for possible next steps by the Hiring Manager.
- If you meet eligibility requirements, the next step would be a video screen with a member of the PeopleOps team for about thirty (30) minutes.
- If warranted, the next step would be a video interview with our Director of Platform for one (1) hour.
- If warranted, the next step would be a video panel interview with key stakeholders at PadSplit for two (2) hours.
- The panel interview will require a candidate to work on a technical assessment where you will showcase your software skills to the panel for discussion.
- If warranted, the final interview would be with our CTO.
- If warranted, then we move to contract!
Please note: Although the job posting says it's in Atlanta, Georgia, this is a fully remote position. This is a result of our Applicant Tracking System requiring a location to post the role on LinkedIn.
Skills
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Basics
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Short answers (1)
- Please provide a link to your LinkedIn profile. At PadSplit, we require a LinkedIn profile with a clear picture of your face as part of the application process to help verify candidate authenticity and ensure we are engaging with real individuals. Your profile will be reviewed solely for professional background and experience; we do not make hiring decisions based on photos or any protected characteristics. Applications submitted without a valid LinkedIn profile with a clear picture will not be considered.
Pick from a list (12)
- What best describes your experience defining technical architecture for large-scale backend platforms?
- What best describes your experience building and scaling Django applications in production?
- What best describes your experience designing distributed systems and service-oriented architectures?
- What best describes your experience identifying and addressing technical debt and scalability risks?
- What best describes the type of role you are looking for next?
- What best describes the environment where you do your best work?
- What best describes how you prefer to spend your time?
- What best describes your experience working in a startup? Our definition of a startup is working for a company that is disrupting an industry and changing the world while doing it all at scale.
- What continent will you be physically working out of? optional
- Which state will you physically be working out of? optional
- Are you currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for sponsorship now or in the future?
- The salary range for this role is $175-200K a year. Knowing this, would you accept an offer within that range?
Written answers (1)
- In 2 sentences or less, what advice would you give to someone who wants to be a Staff Engineer?