About the role

Role Overview

Join Stream as a Lead Platform Engineer to improve the real-time platform across efficiency, reliability, and cloud cost. You’ll be hands-on, leading infrastructure decisions while working with a small, senior team.

Key Missions

Lead cloud migration from AWS to GCP.
Set up and run Kubernetes as part of the modernization effort.
Migrate 35–40 PostgreSQL shards from AWS RDS to self-hosted PostgreSQL on Kubernetes, ensuring reliability and performance.
Define long-term platform direction and engineering standards.
Collaborate with product and SDK engineers to improve the developer experience.

First 6 Months Focus

Cloud migration (AWS → GCP)
Kubernetes setup
Moving Postgres shards

Responsibilities

Hands-on platform/backend engineering in code.
Lead projects and technical execution, including driving PRs.
Partner cross-functionally to shape platform operations and standards at scale.

Requirements

Software engineering background (built systems; not just configuration)
Backend/platform coding experience in Go or Python (not scripting-only)
Kubernetes experience at meaningful production scale
Hands-on leadership in a small team (3–5 people)
Deep PostgreSQL expertise, especially sharding (not just partitioning)
Strong AWS and/or GCP depth, including cloud cost optimization with measurable outcomes
AI tooling fluency with active applied adoption in engineering workflows
Evidence via engineering blog and/or conference talks on cloud/platform/distributed systems
Prior experience at an API-first or infrastructure-enabling scale-up

Nice-to-Haves

Open source contributions to infra/platform tooling
Cloud migration experience ideally AWS → GCP and/or re-architecting for cost/performance

About Stream

Stream is hiring a Lead Platform Engineer to improve the efficiency, reliability, and cost profile of its real-time platform. The role focuses on cloud infrastructure and platform engineering at production scale, including cloud migration and database modernization.

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