Platform Engineer

Poetic

$150K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering or related fields
  • Proven track record of building products from concept to launch
  • Strong understanding of programming languages and their mechanics
  • Strong independent problem-solving skills
  • Recognized by peers for engineering excellence or impactful projects.

Responsibilities

  • Own and develop core parts of the Poetic platform end-to-end
  • Design and implement elegant abstractions that scale effectively
  • Collaborate with a small engineering team on complex challenges
  • Engage in discussions about the future of human-computer interaction
  • Contribute to building a robust and integrated programming stack.

Benefits

  • Work in a highly collaborative and innovative team environment
  • Be part of a mission-driven company aiming to revolutionize computing
  • Opportunity to work in vibrant cities like San Francisco or New York City
  • Gain exposure to cutting-edge technologies and engineering practices
  • Potential for significant impact within a fast-growing startup.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're hiring for the next person on our core product engineering team. Someone who is inspired by the future and wants to build what the next layer of human-computer interaction could look like for how we all use computers.

It's a small, focused team of amazing engineers who like owning entire parts of the product end-to-end and want to work on complex technical challenges with real-impact.

Poetic is a fully vertically integrated programming stack and environment and we've had to build the IDE, the compiler, the runtime, and the infra underneath to make it work. And separately, have also built multiple other layers that allow for Poetic to work effectively to achieve the accuracy and reliability needed to automate the most critical processes on computers.

Some questions we think about:
  • What does it mean for software to be living and fluid?
  • What is the syntax of a programming language optimized for LLMs to read and write?
  • Can an entire programming stack be fully immutable down to the database?
  • How do you detect anomalies in variable values (across text, numbers, and table modalities) cheaply across tens of thousands of samples?
  • How do you build a runtime that can reliably execute multi-hour processes with human-level judgment?

If these questions excite you, we should talk.

You will own and build core parts of the Poetic platform end-to-end and design powerful and elegant abstractions that scale.

Requirements
  • Built multiple products 0 1 or 1 2 / staff+ engineer experience
  • Deep care for your craft - you can explain how your tools work under the hood and have opinions about them
  • The ability to run independently and build what you need on your own
  • Someone who can vouch that you're the best engineer they've worked with (or something you've built that speaks for itself)


Poetic
  • We are in-person only in San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY
  • Series A at a $500mm valuation from Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, OpenAI, and other investors.
  • We're a tight-knit team that works hard because we believe that the nature of how computers work for people will finally change
  • We have a very talent-dense team: engineers that have built multiple products 0 to 1 at prior fastest growing startups, Financial Services vertical lead at Palantir, Ramp Growth Lead, #1 enterprise AE from Retool, multiple past founders.

Similar Jobs

More Enterprise Technology Jobs

Find similar Platform Engineer jobs: