Staff Platform Engineer

About the team

The Core Services team is responsible for the foundational systems that power how Forma’s platform operates at scale. This includes service-to-service communication, permissions and access control, release infrastructure, and observability.

As our platform scales toward a more distributed, multi-service architecture, this team plays a critical role in ensuring systems remain reliable, secure, and easy to operate. The work here sits at the intersection of backend engineering and infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on building robust, scalable software systems.

We are low on meetings and high on accountability, with most of the team in the EST time zone.

What you'll be doing

Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will help lead the design and development of foundational platform capabilities that support all backend services.

You will work on high-impact, cross-cutting problems that shape how engineers build, sh...