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Signalfire LLC

Staff Platform Engineer - VC Backed Startups

Signalfire LLC, New York, New York, us, 10261

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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 & Scripting:

Python, Golang, Bash, TypeScript, YAML

What Happens Next? Submit your application to join SignalFire's Talent Ecosystem. We review applications on an ongoing basis to identify strong candidates. If there's a match, a SignalFire talent partner or a leader from one of our startups may reach out directly. No match yet? We'll keep your profile on file for future platform engineering roles in our portfolio.