Staff Platform Engineer
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We're looking for a staff platform engineer to join the Prefect Cloud team and help us build and scale the next generation agentic orchestration platform.
We’re looking for candidates who have experience operating large scale production systems.
You'll report to Zach Angell, Director of Engineering for Prefect Cloud.
What You'll Do
Establish strategies for maintaining a high quality of service, including identifying appropriate service-level indicators and defining suitable error budgets
Bring strong technical judgment to ambiguous problems, including when to prototype, when to harden, and how to make tradeoffs visible.
Lead operationally mature work: write maintainable code, build for reliability, participate in on-call and incident response, and improve the systems you own over time.
Proactively identify opportunities to improve the user experience, both for customers and internal stakeholders, through projects covering performance engineering, adopting observability tools, and improving automation
Raise the technical bar for the team through design feedback, code review, mentoring, and clear written communication.
Use AI-powered development tools effectively in planning, implementation, review, testing, and iteration while maintaining strong independent judgment.
Your Qualifications
Experience operating and optimizing large-scale distributed systems in production, including tools and techniques like observability and self-healing, to ensure that we can operate our systems reliably and in a sustainable way
Expertise managing production services in cloud environments, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Experience with monitoring tools such as DataDog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry
Experience operating production systems in a high-growth startup environment
Familiarity with declarative techniques for managing production infrastructure safely with modern Infrastructure as Code tools, such as Kubernetes and Terraform
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Education Perfect
View Company ProfileEducation Perfect (operating under educationperfect.com) is a premier, B-Corp certified global EdTech platform designed as an all-in-one learning, assessment, and analytics ecosystem for K-12 schooling. Founded in 2007 in New Zealand by brothers Craig and Shane Smith—initially launching as "Language Perfect" before expanding and rebranding in 2014—the platform addresses the challenges of classroom differentiation and heavy administrative burdens placed on educators. By providing deep curriculum-aligned resources across core subjects like Mathematics, Sciences, English, Humanities, and Modern Languages, the platform acts as a whole-school solution. Education Perfect synthesizes data-driven insights with adaptive learning tech, utilizing automated learning pathways, real-time diagnostic reporting, and spaced repetition to personalize education for individual student paces. Its technical infrastructure empowers teachers with automated grading, custom task allocation, and predictive formative assessment capabilities, thereby maximizing instructional time and bridging equity gaps in classrooms. Backed by significant growth partnerships and global investment from firms like KKR and Five V Capital, Education Perfect has scaled extensively, serving over 5,000 schools and millions of students across more than 80 countries. The company operates from its global headquarters in Dunedin, New Zealand, alongside major operational hubs across Australia, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
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