Staff Platform Engineer

About the Company

Partiful's mission is to cultivate friendships through social events. We believe events are the most effective way to meet new people and make friends. Our product helps you throw incredible events, starting with memorable party pages that make it easy to plan & communicate with guests.

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve cloud infrastructure across GCP’s serverless ecosystem (Cloud Run, Firestore, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, etc.)
• Design fault-tolerant, high-throughput systems and ensure observability and performance
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve developer velocity, system performance, and scalability
• Develop and oversee CI/CD, release, and testing infrastructure
• Own company-wide reliability and performance metrics including uptime, latency, and cost efficiency
• Drive organization-wide enablement through AI tooling and workflows
• Mentor and coach engineers at all levels

Requirements

• 7–12+ years of infrastructure or backend engineering experience
• Deep expertise in cloud architecture, system design, and distributed systems
• Demonstrated success scaling systems from millions to tens of millions of users
• Mastery in building CI/CD pipelines and developer environments
• Strong coding ability in Node.js and TypeScript
• Fluency with AI tools and development workflows
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with GCP serverless architecture (Firestore, Redis, Cloud Run)
• Proven track record of accelerating engineering velocity through automation