ezCater · 3 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure (Remote)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$185K/yr - $232K/yr
7+ years expezCater is the leading food for work technology company in the US, connecting anyone who needs food for their workplace to over 100,000 restaurants nationwide. The Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure will focus on building and evolving ezCater’s internal platform, ensuring scalability and operational excellence across platform-managed services.
CateringFood and BeverageHospitalityMarketplace
No H1B
Responsibilities
Design and evolve ezCater’s cloud and runtime platform, including Kubernetes (EKS) and supporting infrastructure
Own platform primitives and services that standardize how teams deploy, operate, and observe systems in production
Ensure engineering teams can deploy and operate services with minimal friction and high confidence
Drive reliability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence across platform-managed services
Establish architectural standards and best practices for service runtime, networking, configuration, and deployment
Partner with new platform engineers to ensure infrastructure enables — rather than constrains — platform capabilities
Build observability foundations using OpenTelemetry and tools such as Datadog, Sumo Logic, or similar
Lead through technical execution and influence
Mentor engineers across the organization on cloud-native and operational best practices
Raise the bar for platform reliability, clarity, and long-term maintainability
Qualification
Required
7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant focus on platform or infrastructure engineering
Strong experience with Kubernetes and managed container platforms (EKS strongly preferred)
Hands-on experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS
Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Go or Python
Deep understanding of observability, including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
Experience building scalable, highly available distributed systems
Strong grasp of performance tuning, capacity planning, and reliability engineering concepts
Excellent communication skills and comfort collaborating across many teams
Friendly, flexible and pragmatic approach to work
Benefits
Market competitive salary
Stock options that you’ll help make worth a lot
12 paid holidays
Flexible PTO
401K with ezCater match
Health/dental/FSA
Long-term disability insurance
Mental health and family planning resources
Remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston office OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office
A tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy
Wicked awesome co-workers
Relish (and many more goodies) when you’re in our office
Company
ezCater
EzCater is an online catering marketplace that allows individuals to order food from local caterers.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$420.79MKey Investors
SoftBank Vision FundWellington ManagementICONIQ Growth
2021-12-15Series D· $100M
2019-07-10Secondary Market
2019-04-01Series D· $150M
Leadership Team
Nihad Rahman
Chief Executive Officer
Briscoe Rodgers
Co-Founder and President
Recent News
Verdict Food Service
2026-01-16
2026-01-15
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