Senior Engineer (Platform) - Oyster

✨ One platform, a whole world of opportunity

Oyster is building a global employment platform that lets companies hire, pay, and care for brilliant people anywhere, closing the gap between talent and opportunity.

We're a remote-first company, distributed across 60+ countries, and have been recognized for our innovative approach and high-performing culture.

👩‍💻 The Role

This is a fully remote position, and you can work from home permanently. The role requires you to be based within +4 / +0 UTC.

Oyster’s Platform Flow Engineering team builds the systems and tooling that enable our engineers to ship software quickly, safely, and reliably at scale. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will shape the platform capabilities that bridge code and production, encompassing CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, observability, developer tooling, and operational workflows.

You will collaborate closely with application and security engineers to simplify infrastructure, enhance developer experiences, and establish scalable, secure foundations. A key aspect of this role will be exploring practical applications of AI to boost developer productivity, automate operational workflows, and reduce engineering toil.

Key Responsibilities

• Build a world-class developer experience: Design and maintain internal tooling, packages, and abstractions that provide simple, self-service paths for engineers, reducing infrastructure complexity and operational toil.
• Own the path from commit to production: Build, operate, and continuously improve reliable, automated CI/CD pipelines that empower engineers to ship safely, frequently, and with confidence.
• Evolve our cloud platform: Operate and improve Oyster’s AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, focusing on scalability, availability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Improve reliability and observability: Apply SRE principles, observability, and effective incident-management practices to minimize outages, accelerate recovery, and identify opportunities to eliminate recurring operational work.
• Accelerate engineering with AI: Identify and implement practical ways to leverage AI, automation, and intelligent tooling to enhance developer productivity, expedite incident diagnosis, automate repetitive workflows, and reduce operational toil.
• Build platform capabilities as a product: Understand the needs of internal engineering teams, transform recurring pain points into scalable platform solutions, and utilize feedback and metrics for continuous improvement of the developer experience.
• Partner closely with engineering: Collaborate openly with application, security, and infrastructure teams to diagnose issues, support incident response, and assist teams in adopting reliable and secure software development and operation practices.

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 view internal engineering teams as customers and seek 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 our work, decisions, and culture. We are driven by progress, change, trust, and unity. Our mission is to create a more equal world of work by enabling companies to hire, pay, and care for talent anywhere. We embrace asynchronous, collaborative work and share our operational practices openly.

How YOU work

Our "How YOU Work" program supports your holistic experience at Oyster:

• Work from anywhere: Work from anywhere as long as your work is timely, your team is supported, and you are authorized to work where you live.
• Paid time off: 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: Receive a monthly wellbeing allowance to spend on various options.
• Flexible parental leave: At least three months' paid leave for all new parents, with job protection up to 12 months or as locally required.
• WFH stipend: Receive a stipend for your laptop and home office equipment.

✨ The best jobs should be available to everyone

We embrace diverse perspectives and are committed to building an inclusive, global company. We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every criterion. We are committed to a trust-based, thriving environment.

Oyster is committed to equal employment opportunity and fostering an inclusive work environment. If you require reasonable accommodations during the recruiting process, please email jobs@oysterhr.com with the subject line: Interview Accommodations.

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