Senior Engineer (Platform)

Job description

✨ ONE PLATFORM, A WHOLE WORLD OF OPPORTUNITY The best jobs have always clustered in a handful of the world's wealthiest cities. But talent is everywhere. Oyster set out to close that gap - building a global employment platform that lets companies hire, pay, and care for brilliant people anywhere. We're proof that a high-performing culture doesn't need an office. Distributed across 60+ countries since 2020, we've built something the industry keeps noticing: - Ranked #10 of 250 on TIME and Statista's 2026 list of America's Top WorkTech Companies https://www.oysterhr.com/library/oyster-hr-named-10-of-americas-top-worktech-companies-of-2026-by-time - Named one of America's Greatest Startup Workplaces 2026 https://www.oysterhr.com/library/oyster-2026-newsweek-award by Newsweek - A G2 Spring 2026 Leader https://www.oysterhr.com/library/oyster-named-best-roi-for-any-global-employment-platform-for-g2-spring-2026 across Employer of Record, Global Employment, Multi-country Payroll, and HR Compliance - The only B Corp-certified global employment platform ~ independently verified since 2023 Two of those rankings measured our business impact from the outside. One measured how our own people feel about working here. They landed in the same place ~ because at Oyster, culture and performance aren't separate conversations. They're the same one. And we're just getting started. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who care as much as you do, we'd love for you to apply. 👩‍💻 THE ROLE Location: While this position is posted in a specific location, all of Oyster’s positions are fully remote, and you can work from home. Forever. To create the best experience for our new hire, this role requires you to be based within +4 / +0 UTC. Oyster’s Platform Flow Engineering team builds the systems and tooling that allow our engineers to ship software quickly, safely, and reliably at scale. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll help shape the platform capabilities that sit between code and production, from CI/CD and cloud infrastructure to observability, developer tooling, and operational workflows. You’ll work closely with application and security engineers to remove infrastructure complexity, create better developer experiences, and build reliable, secure foundations that scale with Oyster. You’ll also explore practical ways to use AI to improve developer productivity, automate operational workflows, and reduce engineering toil. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Build a world-class developer experience: Design and maintain internal tooling, packages, and abstractions that create simple, self-service paths for engineers and reduce infrastructure complexity and operational toil. - Own the path from commit to production: Build, operate, and continuously improve reliable, automated CI/CD pipelines that enable engineers to ship safely, frequently, and with confidence. - Evolve our cloud platform: Operate and improve Oyster’s AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, with a focus on scalability, availability, security, and cost efficiency. - Improve reliability and observability: Apply SRE principles, observability, and effective incident-management practices to reduce outages, accelerate recovery, and identify opportunities to eliminate recurring operational work. - Accelerate engineering with AI: Identify and implement practical ways to use AI, automation, and intelligent tooling to improve developer productivity, accelerate incident diagnosis, automate repetitive workflows, and reduce operational toil. - Build platform capabilities as a product: Understand the needs of internal engineering teams, turn recurring pain points into scalable platform solutions, and use feedback and metrics to continuously improve the developer experience. - Partner closely with engineering: Work openly with application, security, and infrastructure teams to diagnose issues, support incident response, and help teams adopt reliable and secure ways of building and operating software. CORE REQUIREMENTS - 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure Engineering, or a similar production engineering role. - Strong software development experience, with the ability to build maintainable automation, tooling, and platform abstractions. - Proven experience designing and operating production systems on AWS. - Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform or an equivalent technology. - Hands-on experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation. - Experience with observability, monitoring, and production debugging using tools such as Datadog, Sentry, or equivalent technologies. - Strong understanding of reliability, incident response, and operational best practices. - A platform mindset: you think about internal engineering teams as customers and look for ways to reduce their cognitive load and make the safe path the easy path. - Strong communication and collaboration skills, particularly in remote, asynchronous engineering environments. BONUS POINTS - Experience building or evolving internal developer platforms, golden paths, or self-service infrastructure. - Experience using AI coding assistants, agents, or AI-powered developer tooling to improve engineering productivity or automate infrastructure and operational workflows. - Experience with Ruby on Rails. - Experience with Harness, Drone, or other modern CI/CD platforms. - Experience automating Heroku, Render, or similar application platforms through Terraform or scripted workflows. - Experience improving macOS and Linux developer environments through automation and tooling. - Experience working in remote-first, globally distributed teams. YOU'LL ALSO NEED - A reliable home internet connection (or be able to get one). - Fluent English language skills. HOW WE WORK TOGETHER AT OYSTER Our values guide the work we do, the decisions we make, and the culture that makes Oyster what it is. We make it happen—progress is our default setting. We drive change, we build and give trust, and we move as one united team. Our mission is to create a more equal world of work: helping companies everywhere hire, pay, and care for talent anywhere. Everything we do ladders up to our mission. We embrace asynchronous, collaborative work and share how we operate in the Oyster Public HQ https://oysterhr.notion.site/Welcome-to-The-Reef-Oyster-s-Open-Source-Employee-Guide-fc482e3f107c4afd8c85ed217f1d0c1d so other global teams can learn from us. HOW YOU WORK With diverse locations, cultures, and needs, we created How YOU Work; https://oysterhr.notion.site/How-YOU-work-ac16c1932e314ffd8cb693e332458395 a program supporting your whole human experience at Oyster: - Work from anywhere: Oyster has no borders or HQ. As long as work is timely, your team is supported, and you're authorized to work where you live, you can work from anywhere. - Paid time off: Enjoy 40 days off per year (including holidays and vacation), or more if required by your country. - Mental health support: Access Plumm https://oysterhr.notion.site/Plumm-3b5e7e70dec6428e975f68f25972cfb7, our mental well-being service. - Wellbeing allowance: Each month, receive a wellbeing allowance in your ThanksBen wallet to spend on a wide range of options. - Flexible parental leave: All new parents are eligible for at least three months’ paid leave, with job protection for up to 12 months or as required locally. - WFH stipend: Receive a stipend for your laptop and home office equipment to get you set up quickly. ✨ THE BEST JOBS SHOULD BE AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE We embrace diverse perspectives and intentionally build our product and company with an inclusive, global mindset. We encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet every criterion, and are committed to a trust-based, thriving environment. Oyster is committed to ensuring equal opportunity of employment for qualified persons with disabilities and actively fosters an inclusive work environment. If you require reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process, please email jobs@oysterhr.com with the subject line: Interview Accommodations. Our available positions are on our careers page. Our team will only contact you from an @oysterhr.com email, and we will never ask for money as part of an interview process or job offer. If you receive a suspicious email about Oyster jobs or are directed to a site other than www.oysterhr.com/careers http://www.oysterhr.com/careers, please report it via our Compliance and Ethics Helpline https://faceup.com/c/8tpzyyye.