Span

Platform Engineer

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3 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$125k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build AI-powered platform tooling that identifies recurring operational work, automates repetitive tasks, and recommends long-term engineering improvements.
  • Create an internal developer platform with a software catalog, service ownership model, and engineering portal.
  • Build developer-experience workflows, automation, and self-service infrastructure that reduce cognitive load and improve onboarding.
  • Use LLMs and AI agents to automate platform operations, incident response, documentation, engineering support, and developer workflows.
  • Partner with engineering teams to identify platform gaps, improve reliability, and build scalable infrastructure.

Requirements

  • Experience building platform engineering, developer infrastructure, DevEx, SRE, or internal tooling.
  • Experience as an early engineering hire or founder, or experience building and shipping meaningful side projects from scratch.
  • Strong systems thinking and a passion for improving engineering productivity through tooling and automation.
  • Experience building with LLMs, AI agents, and agentic workflows to solve engineering problems.
  • Comfort working across infrastructure, backend systems, and developer tooling.
  • Resourcefulness and comfort operating in a high-agency, fast-moving environment.
Span

About Span

201-500 employees

Span builds smart electrical panels and home energy management systems for residential electrification, integrating with solar, battery storage, heat pumps, and EV charging. It sells hardware and software through installers and utility/solar partners, enabling circuit-level control, backup power prioritization, and real-time monitoring via a mobile app. Privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, it targets homeowners upgrading from legacy panels to support all-electric appliances.

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