Senior Platform Engineer
Collectors Universe, Inc.3 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$140k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate internal platforms, CI/CD pipelines, developer environments, deployment workflows, and shared services.
- Create automation and self-service tooling that improves repetitive, error-prone, or slow engineering workflows.
- Prototype and productionize LLM-powered code modification, migration automation, and agentic operational workflows with evaluation, observability, and guardrails.
- Own ambiguous platform challenges from discovery through design, implementation, rollout, and adoption.
- Strengthen AWS, Kubernetes, infrastructure, networking, container, and observability foundations for reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Instrument platforms, define success metrics, and use telemetry and product-team feedback to guide development.
- Write design documents, tradeoff analyses, runbooks, and postmortems while collaborating with partner teams and influencing engineering practices.
Requirements
- 5+ years building, shipping, and operating production software, ideally including platform, infrastructure, developer experience, or similar leverage-oriented work.
- Strong software generalist skills with systems knowledge across backend services, automation pipelines, infrastructure, and internal tools.
- Fluency in at least one modern platform language such as Python or TypeScript.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, AWS preferred, containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and modern CI/CD systems.
- Hands-on experience integrating LLMs or agent-based automation into real engineering workflows.
- Ability to scope ambiguous problems, propose plans, execute pragmatically, and make build-versus-buy and speed-versus-durability tradeoffs.
- Product mindset for internal engineering users, strong written and verbal communication, and ownership through deployment and on-call.
- Preferred experience with developer portals, service catalogs, fleet or dependency management systems, large-scale code migration or modernization, and evaluation or observability practices for AI-powered systems.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for full-time employees.
- Fertility, commuter, and educational assistance benefits.
- 401(k) matching plan.
- Flexible time off for salaried employees.
- Ten company-paid holidays for regular full-time employees.
- Employee discounts on select grading services for approved submissions.
- Flexible hours and varying schedules where offered by the team.
- Remote or hybrid candidates may be considered; employees within a one-hour commute of an office are required to be onsite most of the time.
- Full-time salaried role with potential bonus, commission, or other compensation eligibility, subject to recruiter details.
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About Collectors Universe, Inc.
Collectors Universe (Collectors) provides authentication, grading, vaulting, and marketplace services for collectibles such as trading cards, coins, video games, tickets, autographs, comics, and memorabilia. Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Santa Ana, California, the privately held company operates PSA and PCGS, plus PSA Vault and the Card Ladder analytics platform, and integrates with marketplaces like eBay. It earns fees for grading, storage, consignment, and data services, and has certified millions of items.