Campus · 4 days ago
Senior Platform Engineer
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$170K/yr - $205K/yr
5+ years expCampus is on a mission to accelerate the talent of tomorrow and reimagine what college can be. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll work across backend services, cloud infrastructure, and data pipelines to ensure the company can scale reliably and securely while improving developer experience.
EdTechEducationHigher Education
No H1B
Responsibilities
Ship backend systems that power admissions, financial aid, registrar workflows, reporting, and real-time student experiences
Build and maintain data pipelines and ingestion flows supporting analytics, product, and operational automation
Own CI/CD and deployment workflows to ensure fast, reliable releases across backend, mobile, and frontend
Design and scale our cloud infrastructure using GCP and Terraform
Improve developer experience and data scientist experience — tools, environments, testing workflows, and internal automations
Partner across engineering (backend, mobile, data, product) to accelerate delivery and reduce operational friction
Strengthen security & compliance through better access control, audit-ready logging, secrets management, and hardened infrastructure
Qualification
Required
5–10 years of experience as a backend engineer, platform engineer, DevOps/SRE engineer, or data engineer
Built and maintained production services, pipelines, and cloud infrastructure at scale
Strong in Go and design backend systems for reliability and clarity
Hands-on experience with GCP, Terraform, Docker, and CI/CD tooling
Care deeply about reliability, performance, graceful degradation, and observability
Experience with data pipelines, warehouses, or operational data workflows
Curious and growth-oriented, always learning, improving, and raising the engineering bar
Communicate clearly and work collaboratively with low ego
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
401(k) match
Fertility benefits via Carrot
Flexible Time Away + paid holidays
In-office lunches for our NY Office (did we mention, we’re dog friendly? 🐶)
Hybrid work schedule (Mon & Fri remote; Tues-Thurs in-office)
Social events - happy hours, birthday celebrations, holiday parties, & more!
Company
Campus
Campus is an online college offering accredited degrees with live classes taught by a network of the world's top professors.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$101.6MKey Investors
General CatalystFounders Fund
2025-03-20Series B· $46M
2024-04-23Series A· $23M
2023-05-01Series A· $29M
Leadership Team
Jerome Pesenti
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