Staff Platform Engineer - VC Backed Startups

Join SignalFire’s Talent Network for Staff Platform Engineer Roles at VC-Backed Startups

At SignalFire, we partner with top early-stage startups that are shaping the future of technology. Our portfolio spans 200+ innovative companies across AI, cybersecurity, healthtech, fintech, developer tools, and enterprise SaaS.

We’re looking to connect with exceptional Staff Platform Engineers who are excited about leading platform, DevOps, and site reliability initiatives at high-growth startups. By joining SignalFire’s Talent Network, your profile will be shared with our portfolio companies, giving you visibility into exclusive early-stage opportunities that may not be publicly listed.

💡 This is not an application for a specific job. Instead, this is a way to get on the radar of VC-backed startups that are actively hiring AI/ML talent. If you have any questions, please direct inquiries to talentnetwork@signalfire.com.

Who Should Join?

We’re looking for engineers who are:
✔ Passionate about building and optimizing cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, and reliability systems
✔ Experienced in leading DevOps, infrastructure, and platform engineering teams
✔ Excited about driving cloud automation, scalability, security, and performance

Typical Roles & Responsibilities

• Architect and lead the development of scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure

• Build and optimize internal developer platforms to enhance efficiency in CI/CD, observability, and deployment processes

• Own and improve Kubernetes, container orchestration, and service mesh implementations

• Implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions for automated, scalable environments

• Establish monitoring, alerting, and logging best practices to improve system reliability

• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure resilient, scalable, and cost-effective cloud architectures

• Lead incident response strategies, disaster recovery, and system availability improvements

• Mentor junior engineers and establish best practices for platform, DevOps, and SRE

Common Qualifications

While each startup has its own hiring criteria, many staff platform engineering roles in our network look for:

• 6+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure

• Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation) and configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)

• Strong knowledge of CI/CD automation (Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Spinnaker)

• Understanding of networking, load balancing, and security in distributed environments (Envoy, Istio, Linkerd)

• Expertise in observability, logging, and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, OpenTelemetry)

• Strong experience in performance optimization, automated scaling, and cloud cost management

• Proficiency in Python, Golang, Bash, or TypeScript for automation and tooling

• Experience in leading technical decisions, architecture, and mentoring engineers

• Background in high-availability, fault-tolerant, and distributed systems

💡 Technologies You Might Work With:

• Cloud & Orchestration: AWS (EKS, ECS, Lambda), GCP (GKE, Cloud Run), Azure, Kubernetes, Docker

• Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef, Puppet

• CI/CD & Automation: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, ArgoCD, Spinnaker, FluxCD

• Networking & Security: Envoy, Istio, Linkerd, Cloudflare, AWS WAF, IAM, Vault, Open Policy Agent

• Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, OpenTelemetry, Sentry

• Databases & Storage: PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, S3, BigQuery

• Programming & S