Staff Core Platform EngineerNew

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The opportunity

The AI orchestration of your wildest imagination.

What you'll do

  • Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders

  • Earned 190K+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world’s Top 40 most popular projects

  • Backed by top investors, from Sequoia’s first German seed to our SAP's recent: strategic investment - bringing us to a $5.2bn valuation

  • Drive architecture across the two Core Platform teams, ensuring execution,: infrastructure, data, and frontend platform systems evolve as a coherent whole rather than independent components.

  • Design highly adaptable backend foundations that support different workloads,: deployment models, shared product team needs, and future scale without creating unnecessary complexity.

  • Partner with the FE platform workstream on core canvas architecture,: real-time communication, performance, plugin contracts, and other platform primitives used by product teams.

What they're looking for

  • Evolve core subsystems including durable workflow execution and state,: orchestration, queue and task distribution, worker management, scheduling, and horizontal scaling.
  • Design for correctness and resilience across distributed environments,: including failure modes, idempotency, state transitions, tenant isolation, and reliability guarantees.
  • Shape our data and persistence architecture, including database scaling,: sharding, migration strategies, deployment abstractions, and long-term operational maintainability.
  • Lead consequential technical decisions through clear proposals and RFCs,: making trade-offs explicit and aligning engineers and stakeholders around durable solutions.