What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform Engineer position at Shields Group Search?
Member of Technical Staff, Platform Engineering
Location: San Francisco, CA
Visa Sponsorship: Available
Location Type: On-site in SF (5 to 6 days per week)
Hiring for both more junior and senior candidates (multiple openings)
Overview
Our client is building infrastructure that allows agents to communicate with the tools you use for work, including GitHub, Gmail, Notion, Salesforce, and more. They are a small team of engineers tackling problems from context to search, helping provide a highly capable bridge between your agents and your tools.
They raised a $20M Series A led by Lightspeed with notable angels including Guillermo Rauch (CEO of Vercel), Dharmesh Shah (CTO of HubSpot), and Gokul Rajaram. Earlier this year, they 2x’d ARR, with customers ranging from YC companies to teams like Wabi, Glean, Zoom, and also many more.
What you will do
- Evolve platform primitives and APIs, including auth, automatic refreshes, triggers, tool search, tool planning, orchestrating and managing sandboxes
- Manage multiple runtimes for code execution across Lambdas and Firecracker
- Performance optimization across tracing, CPU and heap profiling, optimizing DB queries, optimizing temporal workflows
- Work closely with product engineering teams and customers to win their workloads, improving the product in the process
- Write articulate docs
Must haves
- If you are very good, nothing is a must per se
Core platform engineering
- You have worked extensively in scaling backend distributed systems
- You know how to maintain reliable systems while shipping fast
- You are able to hold many different parts of the platform in mind at once
AI native
- You have built with the language models
- You have built for the language models
Linux
- You are comfortable in a Linux environment
Typist
- You can write docs well and explain complex ideas clearly
Human
- You build trust and admit what you don’t know
Optional
- Multiple years of experience writing TypeScript, Go
- Contributions to a major open source project
- Started companies or built large side projects
Salary : $180,000 - $300,000