[Remote] Staff Software Engineer: Platform
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Rogo is building Wall Street's first true AI analyst, aiming to empower finance professionals with cutting-edge AI technology. They are seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to lead the technical direction of their platform as they scale significantly in enterprise customers, focusing on architecture, reliability, and developer experience.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable solutions within our Kubernetes-based platform for secure enterprise workloads
- Define and contribute to reliability initiatives: SLOs, capacity planning, and resilience improvements
- Identify and resolve system misconfigurations and architectural risks
- Build systems that support 10x customer growth with clear failure modes and mitigation strategies
- Own and continuously improve internal platform systems: deployments, environments, and developer tooling
- Drive improvements to reliability, observability, and operational workflows
- Act as a force multiplier for product engineers by building guardrails (not gates) and self-serve tooling
- Bring structure and rigor to complex infrastructure problems
- Contribute to internal engineering standards and design principles
- Work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and leadership to unblock and accelerate delivery
Skills
- Extensive, production-grade Kubernetes scaling experience (not just operating clusters, but growing them significantly from early-stage to production-critical workloads)
- Deep understanding of distributed systems tradeoffs
- Previously worked in: Big tech → then startup or startup that successfully scaled infrastructure
- Strong systems mindset
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity
- Enjoys being a technical owner with broad company impact
- Experience with single-tenant architectures
- Background in financial services or regulated environments
- Familiarity with banking-level security and data governance
Company Overview
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