Staff Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Vetcove's growing team as a Staff Platform Engineer and lead initiatives to enhance the reliability, performance, and velocity of engineering systems. You will own core platform components, including database architecture, build pipelines, and application dependency management. Collaborate with engineering leadership to design scalable, resilient systems and boost developer productivity. This role is central to Vetcove's technical infrastructure, impacting every engineer and ultimately, every veterinarian and pet owner. The position is ideal for someone who enjoys owning core systems, writing Python, and making a significant impact on engineering efficiency. Vetcove offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including full remote work within the USA.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in backend, platform, or infrastructure engineering roles
• Strong proficiency in Python and experience contributing to production applications
• Deep familiarity with PostgreSQL and managed database systems
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and developer environments
• Pragmatic about tooling, automation, and systems trade-offs
• Clear communicator and technical leader, able to drive cross-functional initiatives

Responsibilities

• Lead major database infrastructure efforts, including
• Version upgrades (e.g. PostgreSQL), including code rewrites to address breaking changes
• Designing and maintaining replication and sharding strategies
• Provisioning and managing developer-facing databases with performance and isolation in mind
• Modernize our application stack
• Proactively identify outdated dependencies across services
• Own and execute upgrades of key frameworks, libraries, and SDKs
• Partner with product teams to coordinate and implement required code changes
• Design and evolve CI/CD and QA pipelines
• Own the architecture and implementation of our continuous delivery systems
• Drive improvements in test reliability, deployment safety, and system observability
• Ensure that environments and tooling scale with team growth and product complexity
• Contribute directly to production code
• You'll write and review Python code, especially in service of system upgrades or migrations
• Collaborate with product engineers to streamline integration of platform-level improvements
• Mentor engineers and influence technical standards
• Help set best practices for deployment, testing, and dependency management
• Serve as a go-to resource for high-impact refactors and cross-cutting initiatives

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Django, Redis, Postgres and/or sharding/replication patterns

Benefits

• 100% remote within the USA
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Automatic 401k contribution
• Employee referral program
• At home office set up
• Bi-annual company retreats
• Open vacation policy
• Equity
• Monthly team events