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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Core Platform Engineer - **Company:** N0V8N LLC - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Salary:** $190,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Software as a Service, Databases, Data Architecture, Data Infrastructure, Shard (Database Architecture), Software Debugging, Programming Tools, Distributed Systems, Node.Js, Open Source Technology, TypeScript, WebRTC, Real Time Systems, State Machines, Backend, Kubernetes, Free and Open-Source Software, Formal Methods, Front End Software Development, Event Sourcing, Code Restructuring, Crud - **Published:** August 10, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5b992d5a54c741e8 ## About the Role * Staff-level architectural ownership: You have a track record of leading architecture across multiple systems or teams, including migrations, re-architectures, or foundational platform initiatives with long-term organizational impact. * Systems thinking: You reason deeply about invariants, correctness, failure modes, boundaries, and trade-offs, and you're comfortable making decisions where there is no obviously perfect solution. * Configurable systems at scale: You've designed highly configurable, adaptable systems that serve multiple use cases or operating modes without becoming brittle or excessively complex. * Distributed systems depth: You've designed and operated distributed systems involving concepts such as asynchronous processing, idempotency, state machines, queues, consistency, and resilience. * Data architecture at scale: You've worked on data-intensive systems where persistence, performance, isolation, migrations, and operational reliability were meaningful architectural concerns. * TypeScript & Node.js depth: You have strong TypeScript experience and have built substantial backend systems with Node.js beyond conventional CRUD applications. * Cross-team technical leadership: You influence through technical judgment, clear communication, RFCs, design reviews, and mentorship, helping multiple teams converge on better solutions without relying on formal authority. * Platform enablement mindset: You care about creating clear contracts, abstractions, and developer experiences that allow other engineers to move faster and more safely. * Long-horizon engineering: You're energized by modularization, migrations, refactoring, and evolving existing systems while keeping the product and engineering organization moving., * Workflow, orchestration or devtools experience: You've worked on workflow engines, orchestration platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure-heavy SaaS products. * Frontend platform architecture: You've worked with architecture-heavy frontend systems such as canvas applications, plugin systems, real-time applications, web workers, or complex rendering environments. * Durable execution patterns: You've designed or operated systems using event sourcing, sagas, durable execution, or related state-management patterns. * Multi-tenant architecture: You've designed systems where tenant isolation, resource management, data boundaries, or noisy-neighbour concerns were important. * Open-source experience: You've contributed to or maintained open-source software and understand the additional pressure around public contracts and backward compatibility. * Large-scale SaaS exposure: You've operated systems at meaningful scale or worked in environments where reliability and architectural decisions had broad customer impact. * Monolith modular migrations: You've decomposed monolithic systems or led incremental architectural migrations without preventing product teams from continuing to ship. * Multi-deployment awareness: You've designed products that need to work consistently across both managed cloud and self-hosted environments. * Observability mindset: You think about instrumentation, debugging, incident response, rollout safety, and operability as part of system design rather than an afterthought. * Strong CS grounding: You bring deep knowledge of distributed systems concepts, consistency models, consensus, formal methods, or similarly rigorous approaches to system correctness. ## Description * Drive architecture across the two Core Platform teams, ensuring execution, infrastructure, data, and frontend platform systems evolve as a coherent whole rather than independent components. * Design highly adaptable backend foundations that support different workloads, deployment models, shared product team needs, and future scale without creating unnecessary complexity. * Partner with the FE platform workstream on core canvas architecture, real-time communication, performance, plugin contracts, and other platform primitives used by product teams. Execution, distributed systems & data foundations * Evolve core subsystems including durable workflow execution and state, orchestration, queue and task distribution, worker management, scheduling, and horizontal scaling. * Design for correctness and resilience across distributed environments, including failure modes, idempotency, state transitions, tenant isolation, and reliability guarantees. * Shape our data and persistence architecture, including database scaling, sharding, migration strategies, deployment abstractions, and long-term operational maintainability., * Lead consequential technical decisions through clear proposals and RFCs, making trade-offs explicit and aligning engineers and stakeholders around durable solutions. * Define stable platform interfaces and abstractions that reduce coupling, support safe migrations, and make the platform easier for feature teams to build on. * Mentor engineers across all engineering teams through design reviews, pairing, and technical guidance, raising the bar for architecture, system design, and maintainability., + US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance to support you and your loved ones. * Career growth - We hire rising stars who grow with us! You'll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills. * A passionate team - We love our product, and we prove it with regular hackathons where we see who can build the coolest thing with it! * Remote-first - Our team works remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding. Some roles, like sales in the US, are hybrid-please check the job description. * Giving back - We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about. * AI enablement - We believe in working smarter-everyone gets an unlimited AI budget to explore and use the best tools to boost productivity and creativity. * Transparency - We all know what everyone's working on, how the company is doing-the whole shebang. * Country-specific details are provided in your contract. ## Related Videos - [Rest API Antipatterns](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100208-rest-api-antipatterns) - [Transforming Education: A Journey from interactive Markdown to Remote-Labs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/941-transforming-education-a-journey-from-interactive-markdown-to-remote-labs) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Platform Engineering vs. DevOps Why not both?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/885-platform-engineering-vs-devops-why-not-both) - [Meet Your New BFF: Backend to Frontend without the Duct Tape](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/682-meet-your-new-bff-backend-to-frontend-without-the-duct-tape) - [Nest.js - TypeScript in the backend can also be clean](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1033-nest-js-typescript-in-the-backend-can-also-be-clean) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [What Makes WeAreDevelopers World Congress Different From Every Other Tech Event?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/701-what-makes-wearedevelopers-world-congress-different-from-every-other-tech-event) - [Top Characteristics of a Software Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/166-top-characteristics-of-a-software-engineer) - [The Best X (Twitter) Accounts for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/294-the-best-x-twitter-accounts-for-developers) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift)