Prefect
Staff Platform Engineer
$214K–$309K
Remote · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Experience
- No years specified.
About the job
Build and scale Prefect Cloud’s agentic orchestration platform, focusing on reliable production operations and service quality.
What you'll do
- Set service-level indicators and error budgets, and improve reliability and operational maturity of owned systems.
- Lead work on performance, observability, automation, and customer and internal user experience; participate in on-call and incident response.
- Raise the team’s technical bar through design feedback, code review, mentoring, and clear written communication.
What they ask for
- Experience operating and optimizing large-scale distributed systems in production, including observability and self-healing.
- Expertise managing production services in cloud environments such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Experience with monitoring tools such as DataDog, Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.
- Experience operating production systems in a high-growth startup environment.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with declarative infrastructure management using tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform.
Pay
$248,000-$309,000 USD base salary; $224,000-$288,000 USD base salary; $214,000-$267,000 USD base salary
Tools
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), DataDog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes
AI focus
Use AI-powered development tools in planning, implementation, review, testing, and iteration while maintaining independent judgment; build an agentic orchestration platform.
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