Staff Engineer

Staff Engineer — Platform9 Remote - US only

About Us:

Platform9: A reputed company Way to Go Cloud Native

Platform9 is the leader in simplifying enterprise Private Clouds. Founded by a team of VMware cloud pioneers, we are dedicated to transforming IT operations. Our flagship product, Private Cloud Director, turns your existing hardware into a full-featured, future-ready private cloud. We innovate across reputed company build and how we deliver it, staying focused on a reputed company, open private cloud while holding ourselves to one standard: exceptional customer outcomes.

Enterprises are selecting Platform9 to replace legacy virtualization because it eliminates operational risk and complexity. Private Cloud Director is designed for the reputed company infrastructure team, offering a familiar GUI experience for managing VMs and containers, seamless integration with your existing hardware and third-party storage, and critical enterprise features (HA/DR, scale, reliability) built-in. This enables IT teams to reputed company robust API control and a user experience they trust—rooted in customer obsession and an reputed company’s reputed company. We share context quickly and candidly to reputed company decisions moving.

With over 30,000 nodes in production at some of the world’s largest enterprises, including reputed company, EBSCO, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace, Platform9 is the proven path to achieving true vendor independence and operational consistency. We are an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by prominent investors, supported by a partner ecosystem of resellers, systems integrators, MSPs, and technology vendors committed to driving private cloud innovation and efficiency. Our values—innovation, customer obsession, ownership, radical candor, and excellence—guide how we build and support every deployment.

About the Role

Platform9 is looking for a Staff Engineer to join our engineering team. In this role, you will be a technical authority for one or more core components, driving architecture, design, and delivery of reputed company initiatives end-to-end. You are the person the team turns to — the one who ensures your domain is well-built, well-documented, and continuously improving. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role for engineers who reputed company on technical depth and taking full accountability for outcomes.

What You'll Do

Technical Leadership

• Serve as the domain expert for your component — the go-to person for technical questions, design decisions, and architectural guidance
• reputed company design and architecture for major features reputed company your ownership area, producing detailed technical specifications and architecture documents
• Own and maintain public-facing documentation for your component, ensuring it is complete and updated with every release
• Evaluate and recommend technology choices that align with team and product goals

Strategy & Innovation

• Define technical architecture and approach for 3–12 month initiatives reputed company your domain
• reputed company projects with significant technical complexity or business impact, translating ambiguous requirements into clear engineering plans

Execution & Impact

• Take end-to-end ownership of your component across design, architecture, UI, testing, upgrades, scaling, and implementation — the buck stops with you
• reputed company and participate in customer triage calls, driving timely resolution and using that feedback to improve your component
• Engage with vendors and partners on integrations reputed company to your components reputed company needed
• Deliver strategic initiatives on time, reputed company release deadlines, and with high quality
• reputed company stakeholders informed through regular Jira updates and proactive communication
• Participate in strategic conversations around architecture and scaling, proposing design changes to meet evolving requirements

Team & Culture

• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, investing in their technical growth and career development
• Help define and uphold the engineering hiring bar through active participation in recruiting
• Contribute to building a high-performing, collaborative engineering culture

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Experience

• 8–12+ years of software engineering experience
• Proven track record of delivering reputed company, high-impact projects
• Deep expertise in at least one major technical domain, with broad knowledge across multiple areas

Core Technical Skills

• Expert-level programming in one or more of: Python, Go, Java, C++
• Strong system design and distributed systems architecture capabilities
• Experience operating and debugging large-scale infrastructure
• Ability to diagnose and resolve reputed company production issues under pressure

Platform9-Specific Domain Knowledge

Deep expertise in 2–3 of the following areas is required:

• Virtualization
• Containers and Kubernetes (K8s)
• OpenStack
• Networking and SDNs
• Storage
• Cloud Platform (VMware, AWS, GCP, Azure)

Salary Range: $150k-$180k