Staff Platform Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Establish strategies for maintaining a high quality of service, including service-level indicators and error budgets
• ▹Bring strong technical judgment to ambiguous problems, including when to prototype, when to harden and how to make tradeoffs visible
• ▹Lead operationally mature work: write maintainable code, build for reliability, participate in on-call and incident response and improve the systems you own
• ▹Proactively improve the user experience for customers and internal stakeholders through performance engineering, observability tooling and automation
• ▹Raise the technical bar through design feedback, code review, mentoring and clear written communication
• ▹Use AI-powered development tools effectively in planning, implementation, review and testing while maintaining independent judgment

Requirements

• ▹Experience operating and optimizing large-scale distributed systems in production, including observability and self-healing
• ▹Expertise managing production services in cloud environments such as AWS, Microsoft Azure or GCP
• ▹Experience with monitoring tools such as DataDog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry
• ▹Experience operating production systems in a high-growth startup environment
• ▹Familiarity with declarative, safe infrastructure management using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Remote-first team with a flexible-first culture
• ▹Equity stock options
• ▹401(k) with 5% company match, vesting immediately
• ▹Unlimited PTO
• ▹Medical, dental and vision insurance
• ▹Generous parental leave
• ▹Life insurance and disability benefits
• ▹USD 800/month remote work stipend

About the company

Prefect builds and operates resilient, Pythonic orchestration and MCP platforms (Prefect OSS, Prefect Cloud, FastMCP OSS, Horizon). In August 2026 Prefect and Dagster joined forces; the combined ecosystem includes the Dagster data platform, the Prefect agent platform and the open-source FastMCP framework.