Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. OpenSea is building a gateway to the onchain economy and aims to create a highly AI-native team in crypto. The Staff Platform Engineer will design and evolve platform services, infrastructure, and internal tooling that enable engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate products reliably at scale. The role also focuses on developer experience, observability, AI-enabled workflows, CI coverage, and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve the platform services, infrastructure, and internal tooling that power OpenSea's products
- Own complex technical systems from definition through implementation, balancing scalability, reliability, maintainability, and developer experience
- Bring best-in-class observability, monitoring and alerting to all of the systems at OpenSea
- Maintain and improve AI skills & tools to make our systems more accessible, introspectable and easy to contribute to
- Accelerate and expand CI coverage to improve correctness and AI verifiability
- Partner closely with product teams to accelerate build & deployment of critical products (where your agents can't yet!)
- Build and ship high-quality, reliable software leveraging AI, modern development tools, and strong engineering judgment
Skills
- 7+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale backend or platform systems
- Strong fluency in JVM languages such as Kotlin or Java
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems, backend services, and modern cloud infrastructure
- Strong understanding of platform engineering principles, developer tooling, CI/CD, observability, and operational best practices
- Demonstrated ability to own complex, ambiguous technical problems and deliver thoughtful, scalable solutions
- Excitement for making independent technical decisions balancing reliability, scalability, performance, and long-term maintainability
- Experience leveraging AI tools and workflows to improve engineering quality, efficiency, and team effectiveness
- Passion for Web3, digital ownership, AI, or other emerging technologies
Benefits
- 100% Dental/Vision/Medical coverage for employees and 90% for dependents
- Flexible Time Off Policy
- 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Bonding & up to 8 additional weeks for the birthing parent
- Access to Spring Health, covering 8 therapy & 8 coaching sessions per year
- 11 Company Holidays
- Fidelity 401K Plan
- Internet/Mobile Reimbursement Plan
- Reimbursement or Monthly Snack Delivery
- Company & Team retreats to get together for fun and collaboration
- Team Member Co-Working and Gathering Expense
- MacBook Pro & WFH Stipend
- Weekly $50 Uber Eats credit
- Remote work arrangement
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