Platform Engineer - Backend Developer Experience

Global platform enabling businesses to hire anyone, anywhere, easily with international payroll and compliance solutions.
Backend
Senior Software Engineer
Remote
1,000 - 5,000 Employees
5+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS

Description For Platform Engineer - Backend Developer Experience

Deel is revolutionizing global hiring as a market-leading platform that enables companies to hire talent worldwide without borders. As a Platform Engineer in the Developer Experience team, you'll be crucial in enhancing developer productivity through their internal tool called Giger. The role combines technical expertise with cross-functional collaboration, focusing on building and improving developer tools and environments.

The company has shown impressive growth, reaching a $12B valuation after their latest funding round in 2023. As part of Deel's R&D Infrastructure team, you'll work in a truly global environment with over three thousand team members across 100+ countries. The position offers the opportunity to impact how global teams hire, onboard, manage, and pay their workforce.

The DevEx team is specifically focused on maintaining and evolving Giger, a tool that creates sandboxed production-like environments. This is a critical role as the company scales, requiring both technical expertise in backend development and infrastructure, as well as strong communication skills to coordinate with multiple teams.

The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience with Node.js, Kubernetes, and cloud technologies, combined with a passion for building developer tools and improving engineering workflows. You'll be working in a remote-first environment with competitive compensation including equity opportunities and flexible work arrangements.

If you're excited about building tools that empower developers and want to be part of a company that's reshaping global employment, this role offers the perfect combination of technical challenges and meaningful impact.

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Responsibilities For Platform Engineer - Backend Developer Experience

  • Be part of a cross-functional team working with Frontend Engineers, Product Teams, Designers and QA
  • Participate in product planning from discovery to deployment
  • Develop robust new features and APIs
  • Improve industry-leading products
  • Maintain and enhance internal developer tool called Giger
  • Focus on developer productivity and experience

Requirements For Platform Engineer - Backend Developer Experience

Node.js
Kubernetes
PostgreSQL
MySQL
RabbitMQ
Kafka
  • 5+ years of experience with Node.js or any other language
  • Solid Kubernetes, Helm and Docker experience (minimum 2+ yrs required)
  • General AWS or similar cloud experience
  • Experience with Postgres/Mysql, RabbitMq/Nats/Kafka
  • Strong system design and problem solving skills
  • Experience building complex CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience in building observability toolchain
  • Strong communication skills
  • Hands-on troubleshooting abilities

Benefits For Platform Engineer - Backend Developer Experience

Equity
  • Provided computer equipment tailored to your role
  • Stock grant opportunities
  • Additional perks and benefits based on employment status and country
  • Flexible remote work
  • WeWork access where available

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