Senior Platform Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

EasyPost is a YC unicorn founded in 2012 with the mission of making shipping simple for businesses. They provide a developer-friendly REST API for shipping and are focused on simplifying shipping for all businesses, from startups to large corporations. The company is rapidly growing and seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their Developer Tooling Team, specializing in database platform automation. This role focuses on reducing friction for developers interacting with database infrastructure.

Requirements

• Not specified

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain internal tooling that automates and streamlines database-related workflows, including schema migration pipelines, automatic DDL evaluation, query analysis, and compliance checks.
• Establish and track metrics to understand the cost and impact of critical database workflows (e.g., time to review DDL changes, change failure rates, mean time to recovery, and developer wait times) and use that data to drive tooling improvements.
• Integrate database tooling into CI/CD pipelines, enabling safer, faster, and more predictable delivery of database changes.
• Use infrastructure-as-code practices (Terraform, Ansible) to manage and scale Azure-based database environments with consistency and auditability.
• Partner with database engineers to codify best practices into self-service tools, reducing repetitive manual work and increasing deployment confidence.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to automate enforcement of data governance and retention policies.
• Build observability into your tooling, ensuring changes are visible, traceable, and easy to debug when things go wrong.
• Take ownership of the database tooling platform.

Company Information

• Founded: 2012
• Status: YC Unicorn
• Mission: To make shipping simple for businesses.
• Technology: Primarily uses Azure and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and Ansible.