Staff Software Engineer – Platform
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Staff engineer scaling Sharp Performance’s Laravel platform for a coaching marketplace serving first responders. Driving reliability, security, observability, and AI-agent-ready engineering systems.
Responsibilities:
- Co-own the architecture and long-term health of the core Laravel platform, database, API, background jobs, and internal admin tooling
- Build platform foundations including stable APIs and contracts, CI/CD, environments, feature flags, observability, and on-call readiness
- Lead scaling work across databases, queues, caching, and third-party integrations
- Decide where to retain the monolith and where service, queue, or event boundaries are appropriate
- Document architectural decisions and safely implement migrations
- Make the platform agent-ready with bounded modules, fast CI, reliable test environments, and safe, auditable agent access to production evidence
- Harden reliability and security through multi-tenant data isolation, access controls, audit trails, and incident response supporting SOC 2
- Collaborate with C-Squad engineers through design and code reviews, mentoring, and unblocking
- Partner with product and other squads on roadmap trade-offs between platform and feature work
- Set technical direction, write production code, and improve how the squad designs, ships, and operates software
Requirements:
- 8+ years building and running production backend systems, with recent time at staff or lead level
- Product mindset and ability to shape the roadmap with product and design
- Deep platform engineering experience owning infrastructure, deployment pipeline, and runtime of a growing product
- Track record of scaling a system through real growth
- Strong relational database skills with MySQL or PostgreSQL, including schema design, query tuning, indexing, and migrations on live data
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, containers, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD
- Experience with asynchronous and distributed patterns, including queues, workers, webhooks, idempotency, and retries
- Ability to lead through influence and set technical direction
- Daily, hands-on use of AI coding agents
- Experience building agent tooling or harnesses, including skills, MCP servers, eval loops, or agent guardrails
- Clear written communication and ability to explain technical trade-offs
- PHP and Laravel experience is nice to have, including Horizon, Nova, and queues
- Strong engineers from Go, Python, Ruby, Node, Java, or similar backgrounds may ramp quickly
- Experience breaking up or modernizing a monolith without a big-bang rewrite
- Observability tooling experience, such as Sentry or Datadog
- Production incident response experience
- SOC 2, HIPAA, or other production compliance experience
- Experience integrating scheduling, calendar, SMS, or email providers at volume
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible PTO
- 401(k) with company match
- Access to the same performance coaches offered to clients
- Remote-first, async-friendly work environment
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