Rally
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SeniorPlatformEngineer
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“Senior Platform Engineer at Rally. Skills: Platform Engineering, Backend Systems, Cloud Architecture. Own and scale backend systems. Scale data sync pipelines”
What You'll Achieve.
Scale platform for millions; Support ambitious roadmap; Improve developer experience; Support AI agents at scale
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting
On-call rotation, In-person team onsites
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
6+ years backend systems experience, TypeScript/Node.js fundamentals, AWS managed services experience, Event-driven systems experience, Streaming infrastructure experience, Observability understanding, On-call responsibilities comfort, Production incident response comfort
Nice to Have
Workflow orchestration systems familiarity, Distributed systems patterns familiarity, Elasticsearch experience at scale, AI-native product development exposure, Agentic workflow patterns exposure, Early platform team member experience, GraphQL APIs familiarity, Prisma ORM familiarity
What You'll Do.
Own and scale backend systems
Scale data sync pipelines
Scale workflow automation
Drive platform-level projects
Unlock new product capabilities
Implement rate limiting
Implement tenant isolation
Integrate data enrichment
Collaborate with product engineers
Eliminate platform bottlenecks
Improve feature development velocity
Improve feature development reliability
Participate in on-call rotation
Lead post-incident reviews
Improve system observability
Improve system resilience
Shape backend foundation
Influence architectural decisions
Establish engineering standards
Lead technical design discussions
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Platform Engineering team; Product engineers; UX Researchers; Research Ops leaders; Designers; Product managers; Cross-functional teams
Communication Scope
Written documentation; Async communication
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning
Full Job Description
Role at a glance What: As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll own and scale the backend systems and data infrastructure that power Rally's core product — enabling our platform to handle hundreds of millions of participant records, billions of events, and the next generation of AI-native research workflows. Impact: Your work will directly determine how fast Rally's product can move. You'll strengthen the systems that every product engineer builds on and ensure our platform can support the ambitious roadmap ahead. Team: You'll join our Platform Engineering team — a small, high-ownership group responsible for the reliability, scalability, and developer experience of Rally's core backend. Work style: Remote-first within the United States, with regular async collaboration and optional in-person team onsites. About Rally UXR Rally is the User Research CRM that helps product, design, and research teams talk to their users quickly, safely, and at scale. Our platform automates the unglamorous parts of research—participant recruitment, outreach, screening, scheduling, consent, and incentives—so teams can spend more time learning from customers and less time wrestling with manual workflows. We're now building Rally's next chapter: an AI-native platform that handles the full research recruiting lifecycle, end to end. Trusted by teams at Google, Adobe, Figma, GitLab, Webflow, and others. Backed by Y Combinator, Stage 2 Capital, and Canapi Ventures. About the team Rally Engineering is a highly collaborative, user-obsessed group focused on making research smoother for both our customers and their participants. - We work closely with UX Researchers, Research Ops leaders, designers, and product managers at some of the world's most user-centric companies. - We use Rally to build Rally — talking to our own users frequently, running studies on our platform, and feeding insights straight into the roadmap. - We favor small, empowered teams, high ownership, and a tight feedback loop betwee
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