Platform Engineer
Platform core · data model, permissions, eventing
About the role
You'd own the database, server functions and the event contracts other services depend on. You'd set the standard for migrations, observability and incident response.
Responsibilities
- Author non-trivial database migrations with rollback plans.
- Operate the event pipeline: contracts, replay and dead-letter handling.
- Run the on-call rotation and tighten time-to-detect.
- Pair with product engineers on data-model changes.
Basic qualifications
- 5+ years on platform or backend teams.
- Strong relational database skills: query plans, indexes, locking.
- Production experience with edge or serverless runtimes.
- Willingness to be on call (about one week in four).
Preferred skills and experience
- Experience running a managed database platform.
- Built event-sourced or CQRS systems in production.
- Comfort writing technical docs and runbooks.
- Vertical SaaS background.
About Zaras
Zaras builds software for the trades: scheduling, estimates, invoices and payments on one job record. The team is small and spends real time in the field. There's no management layer to hide in, so everyone ships.
Zaras is an equal opportunity employer.
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