Companies across the USA are actively expanding their infrastructure teams, and demand for a staff platform engineer continues to grow as organizations scale their cloud systems. This remote role offers 500+ open positions for engineers ready to shape reliable, high-performing platforms. It's an excellent opportunity for professionals seeking flexibility without sacrificing meaningful technical impact.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform. Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, observability practices, and distributed systems design is essential, along with the ability to mentor teams and drive architectural decisions. Employers hiring a staff platform engineer typically look for someone who can balance strategic thinking with hands-on problem-solving across large-scale systems.
Remote work for this position typically involves close collaboration with distributed engineering teams, using asynchronous communication and modern collaboration tools to maintain productivity. The USA market shows strong hiring momentum for platform engineering talent, driven by ongoing investment in cloud-native architecture. Many organizations now prioritize remote-first setups, making this an especially favorable time to explore staff platform engineer vacancies nationwide.
If you're ready to advance your career, Global Work AI features a curated selection of staff platform engineer positions tailored to your experience and goals. Explore new opportunities, connect with forward-thinking teams, and take the next step toward a rewarding remote role. Global Work AI makes it easy to discover the right fit and move your career forward with confidence.
Honor
Design, implement, and maintain scalable distributed systems and infrastructure. Manage build and deployment pipelines, maintain various environments, and provide consulting on abstractions for problem patterns. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable and efficient services.
remote, United States$194k – $216k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Life360
Develop and maintain the AI infrastructure, including agent runtime and orchestration platform. Own production components end to end, setting technical direction and ensuring quality through evaluations and observability.
remote, United States$149k – $272k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Hops
Lead the development of platform and infrastructure for product teams, enhancing the developer loop including CI/CD, deployment, and observability. Build shared tooling and templates to improve workflows and security practices.
remote (anywhere)Full TimeLead / Manager
1upHealth
Build and run CI/CD pipelines, automation, and test infrastructure. Collaborate with engineering teams to improve testing frameworks and infrastructure. Automate operational tasks and create ephemeral test environments. Ensure platform security and compliance with HIPAA standards.
remote, United StatesFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Alight
Lead the design and implementation of the Data Engine’s ingestion, transformation, and orchestration infrastructure. Develop extensible data models and transformation frameworks, and build developer tooling for independent integration delivery.
remote, United States$185k – $235k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Owner.com
Design and build event-sourced and replicated-state systems for the Orders Platform. Act as a technical anchor, setting platform direction and improving observability and recovery processes.
remote, United States$240k – $260k/yrFull TimeLead / Manager
Jobgether
Provide technical leadership for the Builder Platform, shaping its vision and architecture. Lead initiatives in AI infrastructure, platform engineering, and developer tools. Establish architectural standards and governance frameworks to enhance innovation while ensuring security and cost efficiency.
remote, United States$208k – $341k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Veeam Software
Design and evolve cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform and Pulumi. Architect core cloud services, implement disaster recovery strategies, and drive standards for security and scalability.
remote, United States$215k – $307k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Temporal Technologies
Set and communicate a multi-year technical vision for the Builder Platform. Lead the architecture of the Agent Platform and establish AI Infrastructure with governance policies. Own the technical strategy for Developer Infrastructure and partner with leaders to identify AI opportunities.
remote, United StatesFull TimeSenior (5+ years)Temporal Technologies
Own the strategy and architecture of the Agent Platform, ensuring reliability and scalability. Architect AI Infrastructure for agents, design and operate workflows, and lead the development of Developer Infrastructure.
remote, United StatesFull TimeLead / ManagerQuo
Lead the architecture and development of the AI agent platform, ensuring scalability and performance. Build advanced orchestration for agents and design self-learning capabilities.
remote, United States$186k – $242k/yrFull TimeLead / ManagerQuo
Lead the architecture and development of the API platform, ensuring it is fast, reliable, and scalable. Serve as the technical point of contact for product, partnerships, and leadership, facilitating cross-team collaboration.
remote, United States$186k – $242k/yrFull TimeLead / Manager
Quilter
Lead customer deployment planning and integration of Quilter in enterprise environments. Deploy and integrate using Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and identity providers. Troubleshoot issues across application and infrastructure, ensuring clear communication with customers.
remote, United StatesFull TimeSenior (5+ years)Quilter
Build and maintain secure cloud infrastructure, focusing on cloud security, infrastructure maintenance, and control automation. Implement compliance controls, manage the infrastructure lifecycle, and improve operational readiness.
remote, United StatesFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Sharp Performance
Co-own the architecture and health of the core platform, including a Laravel monolith, database, and APIs. Lead scaling efforts by identifying and fixing bottlenecks in databases and integrations. Collaborate with engineers on design reviews and code, ensuring coherent output.
remote, United StatesFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
The Voleon Group
Design and implement distributed scheduling and workflow systems. Improve job prioritization, resource allocation, and orchestration across hybrid environments. Build scalable, reliable platform services and storage abstractions.
remote, United StatesFull TimeLead / Manager
Redox
Own platform work end to end, from scoping to production-ready code. Build foundations for AI agents in engineering and operations, ensuring security and stability. Automate maintenance tasks and simplify the platform by consolidating tools and vendors.
remote, United States$185k – $210k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Terzo
Own and manage the infrastructure for cloud environments, data pipelines, compute orchestration, and deployment systems. Build and operate foundational infrastructure for product teams, ensuring reliability and scalability.
remote, United StatesFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Amperon
Own major parts of the Azure and Kubernetes platform, including managing AKS clusters and evolving the Kubernetes platform. Lead infrastructure-as-code initiatives using Terraform, ensuring safe changes and managing GitHub Actions.
remote, United StatesFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Horizon3
Set technical direction for database architecture, including schema design and indexing strategies. Own query performance and reliability engineering for data stores, implementing fixes and observability systems.
remote, United States$230k – $260k/yrFull TimeLead / Manager
Fanatics Betting & Gaming
Lead complex initiatives across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD systems, and observability. Design and implement scalable platform services and automation, ensuring system reliability and performance.
remote, United States$200k – $250k/yrFull TimeLead / Manager
Red Cell Partners
Architect and scale reinforcement learning environments and infrastructure for data collection. Build and operate scalable backend services, APIs, and data-generation pipelines. Develop modular environment domains for model training and evaluation workflows.
remote, United States$200k – $350k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Aledade PBC
Develop scalable and performant solutions for AI infrastructure. Collaborate across disciplines to shape product strategy and execution. Establish code architecture and quality standards while mentoring engineers. Uphold engineering processes to ensure high-quality outputs.
remote, United StatesFull TimeLead / Manager
Own the architecture of Reddit’s iOS Mobile App, ensuring scalability for 100M+ DAUs. Identify gaps in current iOS App Architecture and lead redesign efforts to enhance modularity and performance.
remote, United States$217k – $304k/yrFull TimeLead / Manager
Fruition Executive Search
Design and scale backend services using Next.js, build LLM-based agents, and own the data layer with PostgreSQL. Architect event-driven systems for order management and implement caching strategies. Establish monitoring and incident response for backend systems.
remote, United StatesFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Blooming Health
Own the technical debt roadmap and lead platform modernization efforts. Drive architectural decisions for GCP services, ensuring reliability and compliance. Define SLOs and improve observability across workflows. Mentor engineers and set standards for code quality and documentation.
remote, United StatesFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Clear Street
Develop the core AI platform for a new trading experience, focusing on high-performance backend in Rust. Design robust APIs for AI capabilities, ensuring security and reliability. Build infrastructure for trading workflows, including order previews and audit logs.
remote, United States$200k – $350k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
GitHub, Inc.
Design, implement, test, and support backend services and APIs for enterprise configuration and policy enforcement. Lead architecture decisions, ensuring clear ownership of state and explicit workflow transitions.
remote, United States$140k – $372k/yrFull TimeLead / Manager
Alpaca
Own the architecture of Alpaca's event streaming platform, leading the shift from batch to event-driven systems. Design user-facing streaming at scale, set standards for event-driven design, and shape authentication and authorization direction.
remote, United StatesFull TimeLead / Manager
Grafana Labs
Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs for billing and usage calculations. Improve reliability of workflows, automate manual tasks, and maintain cloud infrastructure. Collaborate with product management and other teams to clarify requirements and resolve dependencies.
remote, United States$175k – $210k/yrFull TimeLead / ManagerGrafana Labs
Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs for billing and usage calculations. Improve reliability of billing workflows and automate manual tasks. Collaborate with product teams and maintain cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.
remote, United States$138k – $165k/yrFull TimeLead / Manager
SentinelOne
Drive rapid response to customer-critical incidents by diagnosing and resolving complex production issues across the Agent Platform. Lead root-cause analysis and implement improvements for reliability and scalability.
remote, United States$156k – $215k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Reality Defender
Own the end-to-end data platform for AI research, including ingestion, preprocessing, governance, and export of various media types. Scale the Databricks lakehouse and distributed processing stack, making architecture decisions.
remote, United States$210k – $260k/yrFull TimeLead / ManagerFanatics Betting & Gaming
Drive technical design and delivery of core platform capabilities including cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and CI/CD systems. Lead execution of complex features from architecture to deployment. Collaborate with engineering teams to enhance service reliability and performance.
remote, United States$220k – $275k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
b.well Connected Health
Build and operate the internal AI developer platform, including workflows, tooling, and documentation. Design orchestrated workflows across the software development lifecycle, manage tools for agents, and implement security guardrails.
remote, United States$225k – $275k/yrFull TimeLead / Manager
CINC Systems
Lead the design and evolution of cloud-native platforms on AWS, establishing architecture and engineering standards. Implement secure AWS network architectures and optimize performance across distributed systems.
remote (anywhere)Full TimeLead / Manager
Alteryx
Drive infrastructure, pipeline, and deployment excellence across engineering organizations. Own GitLab operations, design pipeline orchestration systems, and support third-party connectors. Implement deployment safety practices and improve quality-of-life toolsets.
remote, United States$183k – $200k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Phizenix
Build and implement a container-orchestrated runtime and design composable infrastructure as code. Operate shared delivery pipelines with security and compliance as code, ensuring quality and governance checks.
remote (anywhere)Full TimeSenior (5+ years)
GRIDSIGHT
Build and run the observability platform, including metrics, tracing, logging, and alerting. Evolve deployment pipelines and manage infrastructure-as-code. Design secure, multi-region infrastructure and collaborate on SOC 2 compliance.
remote, United StatesFull TimeLead / Manager
Chainguard
Own features end-to-end from design through implementation and iteration. Design, build, and evolve backend systems using Go and REST/gRPC APIs. Serve as the primary technical interface between Customer Platform and other engineering teams.
remote, United States$205k – $231k/yrFull TimeLead / Manager10,000,000+ more jobs available!
