Platform Engineer
Job Description
- Experience with React, Typescript, Next.js
- Experience with AWS/Terraform, Vercel
- Past experience in authentication or security
- Experience building and maintaining production systems at scale
- Understanding of modern API development best practices
- Experience building data models and managing database migrations
- Experience with infrastructure configuration
- Experience writing developer documentation
- Comfortable writing APIs, logic, and infrastructure-as-code
- Offers Equity
As a Platform Engineer at Privy, you will help define how we build, deploy, and scale services that power tens of millions of users across thousands of customers—all within a rapidly growing engineering team.
We believe that platform engineering is where backend engineering meets infrastructure engineering; it's about building the right abstractions, APIs, and developer tools that make shipping code seamless and scalable.
What you'll do
Build and evolve core backend services and API platforms that serve billions of requests per month
Design and maintain the systems that underpin our engineering velocity—deployment pipelines, CI/CD, and internal developer tools
Lead efforts in observability, performance tuning, and reliability across our stack
Shape our approach to scaling and securing multi-tenant architecture
Advocate for strategic technical investments, balancing near-term shipping speed with long-term sustainability
Design and implement product features end-to-end, driven by user needs
What we're looking for
Experience building and maintaining a production system at scale
An understanding of modern API development best practices and design
Experience in building data models, managing database migrations and best practices, and infrastructure configuration
Experience writing delightful developer documentation
As comfortable writing APIs and logic as you are writing infrastructure-as-code
Bonus points if you have...
Experience with React, Typescript, Next.js, AWS/Terraform, Vercel
Past experience working in authentication or security
Engineering at Privy
Engineering at Privy is not just about writing world-class code. We create software that turns complex technical systems into delightful developer tools. We assemble tried-and-true primitives into intuitive, responsive APIs and beautiful interfaces. We believe in open-source work and transparency with our teammates and users. We encourage each other to think big, run experiments and follow our curiosity so we can build better tooling that lets developers shine and empowers their users.
Privy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of background, identity, or status.
