Staff Software Engineer: Platform

We’re looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to define and lead the technical direction of our platform as we scale 10x+ in enterprise customers. This is a hands-on, high-impact role responsible for architecture, reliability, and developer experience across our Kubernetes-based infrastructure. You will solve hard technical problems, raise the engineering bar through your work, and be a key technical partner to product engineers across the company.

What You Will Own

Platform Reliability & Scalability

• Design and implement scalable solutions within our Kubernetes-based platform for secure enterprise workloads.
• Define and contribute to reliability initiatives: SLOs, capacity planning, and resilience improvements.
• Identify and resolve system misconfigurations and architectural risks.
• Build systems that support 10x customer growth with clear failure modes and mitigation strategies.

Infrastructure as a Product

• Own and continuously improve internal platform systems: deployments, environments, and developer tooling.
• Drive improvements to reliability, observability, and operational workflows.
• Act as a force multiplier for product engineers by building guardrails (not gates) and self-serve tooling.

Systems Thinking

• Bring structure and rigor to complex infrastructure problems.
• Contribute to internal engineering standards and design principles.
• Work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and leadership to unblock and accelerate delivery.

What You Will Need

• Extensive, production-grade Kubernetes scaling experience (not just operating clusters, but growing them significantly from early-stage to production-critical workloads).
• Deep understanding of distributed systems tradeoffs.
• Previously worked in:
  • Big tech → then startup
  • Or startup that successfully scaled infrastructure.
• Strong systems mindset.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity.
• Enjoys being a technical owner with broad company impact.

Bonus

• Experience with single-tenant architectures.
• Background in financial services or regulated environments.
• Familiarity with banking-level security and data governance.

Who You Are

• You thrive in fast-paced environments. You are high-intensity and care a lot about what you do, and you're ecstatic to work at a startup.
• You are ambitious. You have fun solving problems that others think are impossible.
• You are curious. You find joy in learning about AI, technology, and finance.
• You are an owner. You are autonomous, self-directed, and comfortable working with ambiguity.
• You are collaborative, organized, thoughtful, and kind.

Why Join Rogo?

• Exceptional traction: strong PMF with the world's largest investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity firms.
• World-class team: we take talent density seriously. We like working with incredibly smart, driven people.
• Velocity: we work fast, which means you learn a lot and constantly take on more.
• Frontier technology: we're developing cutting-edge AI systems, pushing the boundaries of reinforcement learning and published research, redefining what's possible, and inventing the future.