Senior Platform Engineer, Authorium

• 6+ years of professional experience in platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering, with strong fundamentals in distributed systems, networking, and cloud architecture
• Systems Thinker: Proven track record designing and operating reliable, scalable infrastructure — including service meshes, internal tooling, and developer-facing APIs or abstractions
• High-Agency: You identify platform gaps before they become incidents. You partner with engineering teams to turn reliability pain into well-scoped platform investments
• Security Minded: You treat security as a first-class platform concern — deep understanding of secrets management, network policies, IAM models, and supply chain security
• Quality Obsessed: A history of high-quality infrastructure-as-code, runbooks, and a drive to build self-service systems that reduce toil for the entire engineering org
• San Francisco Based: Energized by an in-office (Monday-Thursday) collaborative culture

Desirable

• We are establishing our San Francisco office as a strategic center for high-bandwidth engineering and product innovation
• This is a foundational role for a senior engineer who thrives in an in-person, collaborative environment and wants to be "in the room" where our most complex architectural decisions are made
• While Authorium is a distributed company, our SF office is where we tackle our most intricate "war room" challenges—from modularizing our core domain to whiteboarding the next generation of our workflow engine
• You will be a primary driver of the technical integrity of our platform, setting the quality bar and shipping the features that will power our next major phase of expansion
• Architecting the Platform: Own the most complex infrastructure work — designing internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, deployment abstractions, and the foundational systems that product teams build on top of
• Technical Sovereignty: Make architectural decisions around reliability, scalability, and developer experience that hold up across multiple teams and services. You'll write ADRs and lead the modularization of platform primitives and shared infrastructure
• High-Bandwidth Collaboration: Work in-person (Monday–Thursday) with our SF engineering leadership to design platform capabilities, resolve production incidents, and translate engineering pain points into infrastructure solutions
• Technical Excellence: Set the standard for platform reliability. You'll lead infrastructure code reviews, define SLOs, and drive improvements to observability, automated testing, and deployment safety
• AI-Native Workflow: Use Cursor and Claude to automate infrastructure toil and focus on high-leverage platform design. You'll define our AI-first patterns for platform engineering — from AI-assisted runbooks to automated incident triage