Founding Platform Engineering Lead

Responsibilities

• Own and build the core platform that enables rapid, end-to-end deployments for large universities
• Develop deployment automation using a pipeline of agents to replace manual engineering tasks
• Design and manage the security platform, including compliance, RBAC, encryption, and audit trails
• Set the connector and data engineering strategy to handle diverse customer source systems and schemas
• Act as a player-coach, designing primitives and abstractions that allow the platform to scale from 10 to 400 customers

Requirements

• 3-8 years of production engineering experience
• Proficiency in Python and TypeScript in a production environment
• Deep expertise in Postgres and schema design at scale
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP) and Kubernetes
• Strong background in data engineering, including large-scale ETL/ELT and real-time sync
• Experience implementing multi-tenant patterns, tenant isolation, and RBAC
• Proven experience building with LLM APIs and designing evaluation pipelines for agentic products

About the Company

Risely is building the agentic operating system for universities. We are currently live at some of the largest universities in the country and growing fast, providing automated, intelligent infrastructure to transform higher education workflows.