Member of Technical Staff, Platform
San Francisco, CAFull-timePosted todayStill listed today
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Job overview
The Member of Technical Staff, Platform will own Wafer’s web app and backend services end to end, including the customer app, APIs, internal dashboards, and supporting services. The role spans architecture, on-call, full-stack feature delivery, and platform improvements intended to keep systems reliable and make engineering work faster. It is based in San Francisco and is full-time and in person.
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Full job description
Wafer runs an inference cloud that keeps getting faster, and the product people touch is our frontend and backend services. You'll own them end to end: the customer app, our APIs, the internal dashboards and the services behind them. You'll keep them fast, reliable and easy for the rest of the team to build on.
What you'll do
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Own Wafer's web app and backend services, from architecture to on-call.
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Ship full-stack features across TypeScript and Python services.
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Improve reliability, observability and deployment across the platform.
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Make the rest of engineering faster by building shared platform pieces.
You might be a fit if
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You've shipped and run full-stack production systems at a fast-moving startup.
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You care about reliability and have strong backend fundamentals.
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You like owning a broad surface area.
San Francisco, full-time, in person.
How this job compares
Set against the 4,005 open Platform Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$175–262K/yr641 salary ranges
- US median$65–80/hr60 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 797 open Platform Engineer jobs in California and 4,005 across the US. 12% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- NVIDIA32 open
- ServiceNow, Inc.27 open
- Apple19 open
- Experience
- Platform Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 4 to 8 years (3,300 postings).
- Education
- 890 of the 4,005 open Platform Engineer jobs (22%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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