> Markdown version of [/jobs/ext/2714836-platform-engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/2714836-platform-engineer). Every page supports `.md` or `Accept: text/markdown`. Links point to the HTML versions so they work for humans too. Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Platform Engineer - **Company:** POETIC - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Computer Programming, Databases, Human-Computer Interaction, Large Language Models, Programming Languages - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/platform-engineer-poetic-com-8355863 ## About the Role * Built multiple products 0 * 1 or 1 * n / staff+ engineer experience * Deep care for your craft - you can explain how your tools work under the hood and have opinions about them * The ability to run independently and build what you need on your own * Someone who can vouch that you're the best engineer they've worked with (or something you've built that speaks for itself) ## Description We're hiring for the next person on our core product engineering team. Someone who is inspired by the future and wants to build what the next layer of human-computer interaction could look like for how we all use computers. It's a small, focused team of amazing engineers who like owning entire parts of the product end-to-end and want to work on complex technical challenges with real-impact. Poetic is a fully vertically integrated programming stack and environment and we've had to build the IDE, the compiler, the runtime, and the infra underneath to make it work. And separately, have also built multiple other layers that allow for Poetic to work effectively to achieve the accuracy and reliability needed to automate the most critical processes on computers. Some questions we think about: * What does it mean for software to be living and fluid? * What is the syntax of a programming language optimized for LLMs to read and write? * Can an entire programming stack be fully immutable down to the database? * How do you detect anomalies in variable values (across text, numbers, and table modalities) cheaply across tens of thousands of samples? * How do you build a runtime that can reliably execute multi-hour processes with human-level judgment? If these questions excite you, we should talk. You will own and build core parts of the Poetic platform end-to-end and design powerful and elegant abstractions that scale. ## Related Videos - [Kubernetes and Microservices with Multi-Model Databases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/382-kubernetes-and-microservices-with-multi-model-databases) - [Photonic Computing: Programming a New Class of AI Accelerators (incl. Live Coding)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100196-photonic-computing-programming-a-new-class-of-ai-accelerators-incl-live-coding) - [Creating Industry ready solutions with LLM Models](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/899-creating-industry-ready-solutions-with-llm-models) - [Under the Hood of Building on Lovable](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100032-under-the-hood-of-building-on-lovable) - [Fault Tolerance and Consistency at Scale: Harnessing the Power of Distributed SQL Databases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1146-fault-tolerance-and-consistency-at-scale-harnessing-the-power-of-distributed-sql-databases) - [Coffee with Developers - Adam Wiggins](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/919-coffee-with-developers-adam-wiggins) ## 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) - [The Best X (Twitter) Accounts for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/294-the-best-x-twitter-accounts-for-developers) - [Never delegate the understanding](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/749-never-delegate-the-understanding) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Dev Digest 129 - Now that's what I call private data!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/468-dev-digest-129-now-that-s-what-i-call-private-data) - [How to Answer the Interview Question: “Why Do You Want to Be a Software Engineer?”](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/392-how-to-answer-the-interview-question-why-do-you-want-to-be-a-software-engineer)