Staff Platform Engineer

Who you are

• 7+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale backend or platform systems
• Strong fluency in JVM languages such as Kotlin or Java
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems, backend services, and modern cloud infrastructure
• Strong understanding of platform engineering principles, developer tooling, CI/CD, observability, and operational best practices
• Demonstrated ability to own complex, ambiguous technical problems and deliver thoughtful, scalable solutions
• Excitement for making independent technical decisions balancing reliability, scalability, performance, and long-term maintainability
• Experience leveraging AI tools and workflows to improve engineering quality, efficiency, and team effectiveness
• Passion for Web3, digital ownership, AI, or other emerging technologies
• If you don't think you meet all of the criteria above but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone who is excited to join the team

What the job involves

• We're looking for a highly skilled, curious, and self-driven Staff Platform Engineer to help build the technical foundations that power OpenSea
• In this role, you'll design and evolve the platform, services, and infrastructure that enable our engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate products quickly, reliably, and at scale
• You'll partner closely with product engineers to improve developer experience, system performance, and operational excellence while helping evolve the AI-enabled workflows, engineering systems, and technical foundations that make our entire team more effective builders
• In the age of AI, Platform teams have two main roles - architect, build, and maintain critical systems, and enable the rest of the team to work safely and productively across your areas of ownership. Our goal is to make the systems protect themselves and enable everyone to build quickly
• Design, build, and evolve the platform services, infrastructure, and internal tooling that power OpenSea's products
• Own complex technical systems from definition through implementation, balancing scalability, reliability, maintainability, and developer experience
• Bring best-in-class observability, monitoring and alerting to all of the systems at OpenSea
• Maintain and improve AI skills & tools to make our systems more accessible, introspectable and easy to contribute to
• Accelerate and expand CI coverage to improve correctness and AI verifiability
• Partner closely with product teams to accelerate build & deployment of critical products (where your agents can't yet!)
• Build and ship high-quality, reliable software leveraging AI, modern development tools, and strong engineering judgment