[Remote] Staff Platform Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Beam Benefits is a company focused on modernizing the dental benefits industry through technology. They are seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to enhance their production platform and developer experience, emphasizing the use of AI and best practices to optimize workflows and systems.
Responsibilities
- Tactically apply agentic and generative AI to optimize platform development, operations, and growth
- Collaborate with application teams to identify pain points and bottlenecks in workflows and implement solutions that streamline the developer experience
- Design, implement, and maintain platform infrastructure that ensures high availability, predictable performance, and operational correctness, while balancing reliability, cost, and simplicity
- Drive platform and infrastructure change hands-on, from architecture through implementation, setting the technical direction and standards
- Provide mentorship and technical leadership to other platform engineers, helping raise overall operational maturity and shaping engineering culture
- Lead design and architectural discussions for complex platform systems, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and alignment with business goals
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of platform processes and developer experience, fostering innovation and adoption of effective tooling
Skills
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of delivering high-quality, maintainable, and scalable software
- Deep expertise in full-stack or backend systems, with strong proficiency in modern web applications such as Ruby and React/TypeScript
- Proven experience designing scalable, high-performance architectures, internal platforms, or developer tooling
- Experience with AWS core services and containerized workloads (ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, etc.) and cloud infrastructure best practices
- Experience identifying and applying AI or automation opportunities across the platform to improve efficiency, reliability, and developer experience, while thoughtfully evaluating trade-offs and benefits
- Excellent problem-solving and technical leadership skills, with the ability to make forward-looking architectural decisions
- Strong communication skills, capable of leading technical discussions and aligning teams on platform strategy and decisions
- Experience mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and platform-driven best practices
- Familiarity with modern engineering practices, agile methodologies, and CI/CD pipelines
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