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Staff Software Engineer

Bolt8 days ago
Remote
Remote (US, Canada)
Staff

Top Benefits

Four-Day Workweek with flexible hours and unlimited PTO.
100% paid medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
Remote-first policy allowing team members to live anywhere.

About the role

Who you are

  • 8+ years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering roles
  • Deep expertise with Kubernetes, Helm, and infrastructure-as-code tooling like Terraform
  • Strong software engineering skills, ideally in Go or Python
  • Experience building CI/CD systems and improving developer workflows
  • Clear understanding of cloud networking, service mesh, and zero-trust design patterns
  • Hands-on experience with observability tools and setting SLOs (e.g., Datadog)
  • Ability to lead architectural design and cross-team technical projects
  • Track record of mentoring senior engineers and influencing infrastructure maturity
  • Experience implementing and maintaining compliance controls in a cloud-native environment
  • Contributions to an open-source platform or SRE tooling
  • Experience building shared internal developer platforms as products
  • Expertise in managing multi-account AWS environments with security boundaries
  • Proactive documentation, teaching, and platform evangelism practices
  • Comfort working in a startup or fast-paced environments
  • Experience working on breaking down Monoliths

What the job involves

  • As a Staff Platform Engineer, you’ll lead foundational work that enables every engineering team at Bolt to ship fast, securely, and reliably
  • You’ll architect cloud-native infrastructure. You’ll improve developer experience and reliability. You’ll collaborate across product, security, compliance, and infrastructure to ensure our platform scales with the business
  • You’ll treat infrastructure like a product and internal developers like customers. You’ll model excellence while mentoring senior engineers and influencing system-wide standards
  • Please note, this is a contract-to-hire opportunity with the option to convert to full-time after 3–6 months
  • Designing and evolving Bolt’s Kubernetes-based platform and GitOps infrastructure
  • Driving developer experience improvements across CI/CD, secrets management, and observability
  • Implementing scalable, secure systems for networking, identity, and service-to-service communication
  • Building shared platform tooling that is resilient and easy to adopt
  • Supporting critical compliance efforts including PCI-DSS and SOC2
  • Partnering with SDEs to improve incident response, SLOs, and reliability metrics
  • Collaborating cross-functionally to accelerate product velocity and reduce cognitive load
  • Mentoring other engineers on infrastructure design, reliability, and security best practices
  • Leading cross-org platform initiatives with clear communication and ownership
  • Documenting, sharing, and evangelizing platform standards and practices

The application process

  • Please download and explore the Bolt Super App prior to interview—our consumer experience is at the heart of everything we build!

Benefits

  • Four-Day Workweek, flexible working hours, & unlimited PTO time to promote a healthy work-life balance
  • 100% paid coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees
  • Remote First location policy to allow team members to live where they choose
  • Work from home stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
  • Early Exercise program to help Bolters maximize the value of their equity
  • 401K program to help you invest in your future
  • Learning & Development stipend to grow your skills
  • Paid parental leave to support you and your family
  • 11 paid company holidays per year, 5 additional floating holidays, & your birthday off

About Bolt

Software Development
10,000+

At Bolt, we're building a future where people don’t need to own personal cars to move around safely and conveniently. A future where people have the freedom to use transport on demand, choosing whatever vehicle's best for each occasion — be it a car, scooter, or e-bike.

We're helping over 200 million customers move around in more than 600 cities globally while also supporting more than 4.5 million drivers and couriers to earn a living. The best bit? We're only just getting started.

Read more at bolt.eu