Senior Platform Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Build a world-class developer experience: Design and maintain internal tooling, packages, and abstractions that create simple, self-service paths for engineers and reduce infrastructure complexity and operational toil.

• Own the path from commit to production: Build, operate, and continuously improve reliable, automated CI/CD pipelines that enable engineers to ship safely, frequently, and with confidence.

• Evolve our cloud platform: Operate and improve Oyster’s AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, with a focus on scalability, availability, security, and cost efficiency.

• Improve reliability and observability: Apply SRE principles, observability, and effective incident-management practices to reduce outages, accelerate recovery, and identify opportunities to eliminate recurring operational work.

• Accelerate engineering with AI: Identify and implement practical ways to use AI, automation, and intelligent tooling to improve developer productivity, accelerate incident diagnosis, automate repetitive workflows, and reduce operational toil.

• Build platform capabilities as a product: Understand the needs of internal engineering teams, turn recurring pain points into scalable platform solutions, and use feedback and metrics to continuously improve the developer experience.

• Partner closely with engineering: Work openly with application, security, and infrastructure teams to diagnose issues, support incident response, and help teams adopt reliable and secure ways of building and operating software.

Core Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure Engineering, or a similar production engineering role.

• Strong software development experience, with the ability to build maintainable automation, tooling, and platform abstractions.

• Proven experience designing and operating production systems on AWS.

• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform or an equivalent technology.

• Hands-on experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.

• Experience with observability, monitoring, and production debugging using tools such as Datadog, Sentry, or equivalent technologies.

• Strong understanding of reliability, incident response, and operational best practices.

• A platform mindset: you think about internal engineering teams as customers and look for ways to reduce their cognitive load and make the safe path the easy path.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, particularly in remote, asynchronous engineering environments.

Bonus Points

• Experience building or evolving internal developer platforms, golden paths, or self-service infrastructure.

• Experience using AI coding assistants, agents, or AI-powered developer tooling to improve engineering productivity or automate infrastructure and operational workflows.

• Experience with Ruby on Rails.

• Experience with Harness, Drone, or other modern CI/CD platforms.

• Experience automating Heroku, Render, or similar application platforms through Terraform or scripted workflows.

• Experience improving macOS and Linux developer environments through automation and tooling.

• Experience working in remote-first, globally distributed teams.

You'll also need

• A reliable home internet connection (or be able to get one).

• Fluent English language skills.

How we work together at Oyster

Our values guide the work we do, the decisions we make, and the culture that makes Oyster what it is. We make it happen—progress is our default setting. We drive change, we build and give trust, and we move as one united team.

Our mission is to create a more equal world of work: helping companies everywhere hire, pay, and care for talent anywhere. Everything we do ladders up to our mission. We embrace asynchronous, collaborative work and share how we operate in the Oyster Public HQ so other global teams can learn from us.

How YOU work

With diverse locations, cultures, and needs, we created How YOU Work; a program supporting your whole human experience at Oyster:

• Work from anywhere: Oyster has no borders or HQ. As long as work is timely, your team is supported, and you're authorized to work where you live, you can work from anywhere.

• Paid time off: Enjoy 40 days off per year (including holidays and vacation), or more if required by your country.

• Mental health support: Access Plumm, our mental well-being service.

• Wellbeing allowance: Each month, receive a wellbeing allowance in your ThanksBen wallet to spend on a wide range of options.

• Flexible parental leave: All new parents are eligible for at least three months’ paid leave, with job protection for up to 12 months or as required locally.

• WFH stipend: Receive a stipend for your laptop and home office equipment to get you set up quickly.