Senior Platform Engineer

6 Months ago • All levels

Devops

Job Description

Intangible is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to scale its infrastructure, focusing on data and services for creative tools. The role involves building and maintaining systems for speed, reliability, and scale, with expertise in managing content across collaborative environments and orchestrating agentic APIs and data flows. Responsibilities include providing technical leadership, designing infrastructure for AI-assisted tools, leading backend service implementation, defining infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and observability, ensuring high availability, integrating third-party services, and collaborating across teams. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of distributed systems, real-time synchronization, AI/ML model integration, and cloud infrastructure.

Good To Have:

Experience with 3D tools
Passion for creative tools

Must Have:

Technical leadership for platform layer
Design and evolve infrastructure at scale
Implement backend services and APIs
Define IaC, CI/CD, observability
Ensure high availability
Integrate 3rd-party services
Collaborate across teams

Perks:

Health insurance for dependants
401(k) plan
Flexible PTO

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About Intangible

Intangible is a spatial intelligence AI company for creatives in film, advertising, events, marketing and interactive media. We make constructing 3D experiences dramatically faster, cheaper and more collaborative for creative, distributed teams.

We are an interdisciplinary team of engineers, artists and designers that have built and shipped multiple end-to-end products at companies like Apple, Unity, Pixar, ILM and Electronic Arts. Intangible is seed funded by a16z Speedrun, Crosslink Capital and prominent angels.

We are a design-obsessed, engineering-heavy team shipping a groundbreaking product — and we’re looking for someone who shares our attention to detail and love of craft.

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help scale our infrastructure. You’ll build and maintain the data and services powering our creative tools, ensuring speed, reliability, and scale. Our ideal candidate has deep expertise in managing content across asynchronous and real-time collaborative environments and orchestration of agentic APIs and data flows through these environments.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for Intangible’s platform layer
Design and evolve infrastructure for our AI-assisted, collaborative tools at scale
Lead the implementation of backend services and APIs with a focus on security, modularity, and performance
Define and implement infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, and system health tooling
Ensure our systems meet high availability targets ("four nines") while remaining flexible for rapid iteration
Integrate 3rd-party services including AI pipelines, payments, analytics, and user auth
Collaborate across product, design, and ML to translate creative tooling needs into backend capabilities

Key Competencies

Deep understanding of distributed systems, WebSockets, WebTransport, and realtime sync
Optimizing schema and large data sets for use by LLMs
Architecting and deploying multi-tenant systems with strong role, permission, and tenant isolation
Managing schema migrations and cross-environment data synchronization safely
Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and IaC tools
Practical use of AI/ML models in production (e.g., inference pipelines)
Comfort working in a fast-moving, creative environment with a highly interdisciplinary team