Staff Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure

The role

We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer for our Infrastructure team.

Stream runs behind apps that more than a billion people use: billions of API requests a month, a 99.999% uptime promise, and a small team keeping it all running. Infrastructure here decides how fast our products feel, how well they scale, and how quickly we can launch new ones.

This year we're wrapping up a big move. We're simplifying where and how we host, and rebuilding our data layer on self-hosted, open-source systems that are faster and cheaper to run. That's the groundwork, not the job. Next comes building the infrastructure every Stream product runs on, including the ones we haven't built yet. That means real SLOs, clear costs, calmer on-call, and a platform that helps teams ship faster.

What you build will shape how much Stream spends and how fast it grows, and we'll trust you with big decisions from your first few weeks.

This is a Software Engineering role first. Attitude, ambition and a willingness to experiment across the stack matter more to us than years of Kubernetes or database operations. We expect AI to cover a good share of the DevO