Platform Engineer (New York)

Platform Engineer at Privy

As a Platform Engineer at Privy, you will help define how we build, deploy, and scale services that power tens of millions of users across thousands of customersall within a rapidly growing engineering team.

We believe that platform engineering is where backend engineering meets infrastructure engineering; it's about building the right abstractions, APIs, and developer tools that make shipping code seamless and scalable.

What You'll Do

Build and evolve core backend services and API platforms that serve billions of requests per month

Design and maintain the systems that underpin our engineering velocitydeployment pipelines, CI / CD, and internal developer tools

Lead efforts in observability, performance tuning, and reliability across our stack

Shape our approach to scaling and securing multi-tenant architecture

Advocate for strategic technical investments, balancing near-term shipping speed with long-term sustainability

Design and implement product features end-to-end, driven by user needs

What We're Looking For

Experience building and maintaining a production system at scale

An understanding of modern API development best practices and design

Experience in building data models, managing database migrations and best practices, and infrastructure configuration

Experience writing delightful developer documentation

As comfortable writing APIs and logic as you are writing infrastructure-as-code

Bonus Points If You Have...

Experience with React, Typescript, Next.js, AWS / Terraform, Vercel

Past experience working in authentication or security

Engineering at Privy

Engineering at Privy is not just about writing world-class code. We create software that turns complex technical systems into delightful developer tools. We assemble tried-and-true primitives into intuitive, responsive APIs and beautiful interfaces. We believe in open-source work and transparency with our teammates and users. We encourage each other to think big, run experiments and follow our curiosity so we can build better tooling that lets developers shine and empowers their users.

Privy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of background, identity, or status.