Senior Platform Engineer

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Senior Platform Engineer in USA

Sydecar
Full time
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USA
09/18/2026
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San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Build and improve the internal developer platform, including CI/CD pipelines, build and deployment automation, and local and preview environments.
Design, operate, and scale shared services and cloud infrastructure as code using Terraform, with attention to reliability, observability, and cost efficiency.
Advance release automation and test automation, including safe rollout patterns and easy production rollbacks.
Strengthen platform security and help establish distributed security practices across engineering.
Partner with product teams by setting standards and interfaces and co-building shared foundations.
Lead projects from concept through deployment and contribute to architecture reviews and the platform roadmap.
Mentor engineers and collaborate with engineering, product, design, and operations.

Requirements

At least 5 years of software or platform engineering experience in modern programming languages; TypeScript and Node.js experience is a plus.
Depth in one or more of CI/CD and developer tooling, cloud infrastructure and reliability, release engineering and test automation, or application and infrastructure security.
Demonstrated success improving developer velocity, system reliability, or release safety at scale.
Experience using agentic or AI-assisted software development workflows.
Strong problem-solving, ownership, system-scaling, collaboration, and communication skills.
Preferred qualifications include fintech experience, internal developer platform or developer-experience tooling experience, Terraform and GCP familiarity, observability tooling experience, and security experience involving OWASP practices, secrets management, dependency or vulnerability scanning, or AppSec.
Additional preferred exposure includes NestJS, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Playwright, and React Testing Library; a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field is also listed as a bonus qualification.

Benefits

Hybrid work based in San Francisco or New York City with in-office attendance two to three days per week.

Salary: $190k - $255k/yr

Sydecar

Sydecar builds a deal-execution platform that lets venture fund and syndicate managers form SPVs and handle banking, compliance, contracts, and reporting. It provides software and embedded financial operations that standardize private-investment workflows from vehicle creation through closing. Fo...

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