Senior Platform Engineer

About Intangible

Intangible is a spatial intelligence AI company for creatives in film, advertising, events, marketing and interactive media. We make constructing 3D experiences dramatically faster, cheaper and more collaborative for creative, distributed teams.

We are an interdisciplinary team of engineers, artists and designers that have built and shipped multiple end-to-end products at companies like Apple, Unity, Pixar, ILM and Electronic Arts. Intangible is seed funded by a16z Speedrun, Crosslink Capital and prominent angels.

We are a design-obsessed, engineering-heavy team shipping a groundbreaking product — and we’re looking for someone who shares our attention to detail and love of craft.

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help scale our infrastructure. You’ll build and maintain the data and services powering our creative tools, ensuring speed, reliability, and scale. Our ideal candidate has deep expertise in managing content across asynchronous and real-time collaborative environments and orchestration of agentic APIs and data flows through these environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for Intangible’s platform layer

• Design and evolve infrastructure for our AI-assisted, collaborative tools at scale

• Lead the implementation of backend services and APIs with a focus on security, modularity, and performance

• Define and implement infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, and system health tooling

• Ensure our systems meet high availability targets ("four nines") while remaining flexible for rapid iteration

• Integrate 3rd-party services including AI pipelines, payments, analytics, and user auth

• Collaborate across product, design, and ML to translate creative tooling needs into backend capabilities

Key Competencies

• Deep understanding of distributed systems, WebSockets, WebTransport, and realtime sync

• Optimizing schema and large data sets for use by LLMs

• Architecting and deploying multi-tenant systems with strong role, permission, and tenant isolation

• Managing schema migrations and cross-environment data synchronization safely

• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and IaC tools

• Practical use of AI/ML models in production (e.g., inference pipelines)

• Comfort working in a fast-moving, creative environment with a highly interdisciplinary team

Bonus Qualities

• Experience with 3D tools or creative platforms

• Passion for building creative tools and empowering artists

Benefits 

• We are a remote-first company with a small concentration in the Bay Area.

• Health insurance for you and your dependants

• 401(k) plan 

• Flexible PTO