🛠️ Platform Engineer

PARTIFUL'S MISSION IS TO CULTIVATE FRIENDSHIPS THROUGH SOCIAL EVENTS. We believe events are the most effective way to meet new people and make friends. Our product helps you throw incredible events, starting with memorable party pages that make it easy to plan & communicate with guests — download the app http://partiful.com/download to see how it works! We're building new ways to streamline planning, connect meaningfully in the real world, and make connections between friends-of-friends. Our ultimate vision is to power everything you do in-person with your friends, eliminating the friction of bringing your most memorable experiences to life. You can read more about our mission in The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/31/partiful-gen-z-new-years-eve/, The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/style/partiful-event-planning-parties.html, The Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/evites-are-out-this-new-text-message-party-planner-is-in-46e8b64f, The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/party-invitation-website-partiful/672333/, Wirecutter https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/partiful-app-review/, and USA Today https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2024/08/04/partiful-app-party-planning/72619936007/?taid=66af5128983783000189ad12&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter. Partiful was named Google’s Best App of 2024 https://blog.google/products/google-play/google-play-best-apps-games-2024/, a Finalist for Apple’s App Store Awards https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/11/apple-reveals-45-app-and-game-finalists-for-the-2024-app-store-awards/, and Apple’s App of the Day https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1771691398 (awarded 4x). In 2025, we were named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential Companies https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2025/7289589/partiful/, one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies https://www.fastcompany.com/91270177/social-media-most-innovative-companies-2025-duolingo-bluesky-boston-celtics-pinterest-partiful-planoly-sesame-workshop-feeld-strava-yelp, and named to Inc. Magazine's Best in Business List https://www.inc.com/john-jannuzzi/how-partiful-became-the-life-of-gen-zs-irl-party/91263552. Our company is backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures, and advised by the founders of some of the most successful consumer social products ever made. THE ROLE We’re looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to own and scale the systems that power our product and team. You’ll build and maintain the core infrastructure that powers Partiful's products and enables your teammates to move quickly, confidently, and securely — from CI/CD pipelines and observability tools to scalable backend architecture and cloud services. This is a fast-paced, high-ownership role in an environment where we move quickly, set ambitious goals, and hold a high bar for speed and technical excellence. You’ll work closely with our product and platform teams to ensure reliability, performance, and developer velocity as we scale. Our stack is React (web app), React Native (mobile app), Node.js, and Typescript, running on GCP with a serverless architecture. WHAT YOU’LL DO: - Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure infrastructure across GCP’s ecosystem (Cloud Functions, Firestore, Cloud Tasks, Redis, Pub/Sub, etc.) - Collaborate with other engineers to design performant APIs, databases, and backend systems - Improve reliability and observability across our stack (monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing) - Evolve our CI/CD pipelines and developer environments to maximize speed and confidence in shipping - Empower others (and yourself) to use AI tools effectively and safely across the development process - Own system performance, uptime, and scalability as usage grows - Implement security best practices, from secrets management to access control - Respond to and help prevent production incidents - Jo