About the role

Staff Platform Software Engineer building reusable infrastructure for Cantina Labs’ social AI platform. Improving search, AWS operations, Go services, observability, and developer productivity.

Responsibilities

Establish a foundation that accelerates product development by building reusable, scalable, high-quality components
Design and build core services and product platform components, including entities and relationship systems, for use across the engineering organization
Develop and maintain search infrastructure, including search indexes and relevance systems
Oversee DevOps initiatives, including AWS usage, Terraform configurations, infrastructure upgrades, and platform observability
Optimize the backend repository and Go stack to improve developer iteration speed
Provide consulting and mentorship to engineering teams
Promote best practices and guide adoption of new platform technologies
Lead cross-cutting initiatives and consult on architectural decisions

8+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on foundation-level platform services and infrastructure
Extensive experience with AWS, Terraform, and infrastructure-as-code for large-scale distributed systems
Deep proficiency in Go and backend architectures
Experience creating reusable frameworks and tools
Strong understanding of developer productivity metrics
Experience improving internal engineering iteration cycles
Experience with search infrastructure and indexing strategies
Experience with observability platforms
Ability to lead cross-cutting initiatives and consult on architectural decisions
Collaborative mindset