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HyperFi

Senior Platform Engineer

HyperFi, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199

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HyperFi . We’re building the kind of platform we always wanted to use: fast, flexible, and built for making sense of real-world complexity. Behind the scenes is a robust, event‑driven architecture that connects systems, abstracts messy workflows, and leaves room for smart automation. The surface is clean and simple. The interactions are seamless and intuitive. The machinery underneath is anything but. That’s where you come in.

We’re a well‑networked founding team with strong execution roots and a clear roadmap. We’re backed, focused, and delivering fast.

We’re looking for a

Senior Platform Engineer

to join early — someone who knows what “production ready” really means, and who’s excited to build the infrastructure, observability, and tooling that power everything else. You’ll work closely with our engineers and CTO to design and evolve the foundation of our systems — from GCP Terraform modules to Databricks pipelines and deployment flows. This is a clean‑slate environment: no legacy, no gatekeeping, just impact. You have strong opinions? We want to hear them.

What You’ll Do

Own and evolve our Terraform‑based GCP stack — provisioning services, networking, and secrets

Design and operate CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build) to keep deploys fast and safe

Implement and maintain observability (metrics, logs, traces, alerts) with tools like DataDog or OpenTelemetry

Partner with backend engineers to define service boundaries, infrastructure modules, and deployment patterns

Help shape Databricks and Unity Catalog infrastructure, including workspace automation and secrets management

Drive reliability practices — health checks, rollbacks, autoscaling, graceful degradation

Build internal developer tooling that makes local development and preview environments smooth and repeatable

Be a multiplier: improve our developer experience, not just uptime

Tech Stack (So Far)

Infra: Terraform, GCP (Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, GKE, CloudSQL, Secrets Manager)

CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Cloud Build

Runtime: Python (Sanic + async services), Postgres, Databricks, event‑driven pipelines

Observability: OpenTelemetry, DataDog (you’ll help decide), GCP Monitoring

Everything as code: infrastructure, schema, pipelines

How We Build

Engineers come first: your time, focus, and judgment are respected

Deep work > chaos: fixed cycles & cooldowns protect focus and keep context switching low

Autonomy is the default: trusted builders who own outcomes, no babysitters

Ship daily, safely: merge early, integrate vertically, ship often, use feature flags, and keep momentum

Outcomes over optics: solve real problems, not ticket soup

Voice matters: from week one, contribute, improve something, and shape how we build

Senior peers, no ego: collaborate in a high‑trust, async‑friendly environment

Bold problems, cool tech: work on complex challenges that actually move the needle

Fun is part of it: we move fast, but we also celebrate wins and laugh together

What We’re Looking For

6–8 years of experience in DevOps, Platform, or SRE‑type roles

Expert‑level Terraform and strong command of GCP primitives

Proven ability to own CI/CD pipelines and production deployment workflows

Hands‑on familiarity with Python services, especially async backends

Practical knowledge of observability, security, and IaC best practices

Startup‑ready mindset: pragmatic, lean, self‑directed, allergic to bureaucracy

Confident English communication for cross‑hub collaboration

Bonus If You

Have run DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry in production

Built ephemer or preview environments for dev/test

Automated Databricks or Unity Catalog workspace provisioning

Designed internal CLI tools or DX improvements

Survived (and learned from) a real‑world incident or outage

Location & Compensation

Must be based in San Francisco, Las Vegas, or Tel Aviv

Full‑time role with competitive comp

Flexible hours, async‑friendly culture, engineering‑led environment

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