Platform Engineer

As a Platform Engineer at Privy, you will help define how we build, deploy, and scale services that power tens of millions of users across thousands of customers—all within a rapidly growing engineering team.

We believe that platform engineering is where backend engineering meets infrastructure engineering; it's about building the right abstractions, APIs, and developer tools that make shipping code seamless and scalable.

What you'll do

• Build and evolve core backend services and API platforms that serve billions of requests per month

  Design and maintain the systems that underpin our engineering velocity—deployment pipelines, CI/CD, and internal developer tools

  Lead efforts in observability, performance tuning, and reliability across our stack

  Shape our approach to scaling and securing multi-tenant architecture

  Advocate for strategic technical investments, balancing near-term shipping speed with long-term sustainability

  Design and implement product features end-to-end, driven by user needs

  What we're looking for

  • Experience building and maintaining a production system at scale

    An understanding of modern API development best practices and design

    Experience in building data models, managing database migrations and best practices, and infrastructure configuration

    Experience writing delightful developer documentation

    As comfortable writing APIs and logic as you are writing infrastructure-as-code

    Bonus points if you have...

    • Experience with React, Typescript, Next.js, AWS/Terraform, Vercel

      Past experience working in authentication or security

      Engineering at Privy

      Engineering at Privy is not just about writing world-class code. We create software that turns complex technical systems into delightful developer tools. We assemble tried-and-true primitives into intuitive, responsive APIs and beautiful interfaces. We believe in open-source work and transparency with our teammates and users. We encourage each other to think big, run experiments and follow our curiosity so we can build better tooling that lets developers shine and empowers their users.

      Privy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of background, identity, or status.