[Hiring] Staff Platform Engineer @Zencoder

Role Description

We're looking for an experienced engineer to raise the bar on how our organization builds, tests, ships, and operates software - for both human engineers and AI coding agents. This is AI harness engineering: the discipline of making the fundamentals (CI/CD, testing, IaC, observability, secure delivery) so solid and well-shaped that agents can work productively inside them.

• Shape the platform and infrastructure that everything else runs on — the foundations product teams build on top of.
• Improve the full dev loop: local development, CI/CD, deployment, and production feedback.
• Define and drive standards around testing, IaC, observability, and secure delivery — and help product teams adopt them.
• Build shared tooling, templates, and golden paths that create real leverage — paved roads teams actually want to use.
• Own secure delivery end-to-end: unify security scanning, secrets management, dependency and supply-chain controls, and pen-testing workflows into the core pipeline so secure-by-default is the path of least resistance.
• Stay ahead of the shifting security landscape as AI agents reshape both how vulnerabilities emerge and how they're exploited.
• Shape repos, tooling, and conventions so coding agents can navigate them efficiently — clear structure, good test signal, fast feedback loops, well-scoped contexts, and docs agents can actually use.
• Measure impact against DORA metrics and qualitative signals from engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background.
• Experience designing and building internal platforms - the judgment to know what to abstract, what to expose, and what to leave alone.
• Deep experience with CI/CD, automated testing, IaC, and developer tooling.
• Strong grasp of modern software security and secure delivery practices (shift-left / SecDevOps).
• A product mindset toward internal tooling - treating engineers and agents as users, and measuring whether the platform actually makes them faster.
• Real fluency with AI coding agents - how they work, where they fail, and what makes them effective.
• Understanding e2e test frameworks such as Playwright and how to scale them is a big plus.

Benefits

• Shape the Future of Software Creation: We’re not just improving how developers write code — we’re redefining how ideas turn into reality.
• Massive Impact, Real Ownership: You’ll have full visibility into how your work moves the product and the company forward.
• ICs Are the Core: Individual Contributors are the highest-status role at Zencoder.
• High-Caliber Team & Founder: Work alongside exceptional AI and software engineers, and learn directly from Andrew Filev.
• Global & Flexible: Work from wherever you’re happiest and most productive.
• Aligned Incentives: Our equity plan ensures that when we succeed, you succeed.

Company Description

Zencoder is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.