Staff Software Engineer – Platform Engineering

Bolt is on a mission to democratize commerce. We relentlessly prioritize our retailers—putting their brands front and center while enabling frictionless shopping at any touchpoint in the customer journey. At the center of it all is our rapidly growing universal shopper network—Bolt merchants such as Revolve, Luisa via Roma, Benefit Cosmetics, Kendra Scott, Lucky Brand Jeans, and Johnny Was can access tens of millions of shoppers, offering them a best-in-class checkout.

And revolutionizing ecommerce is only half of the equation—we’re also transforming the way we work. At Bolt, we have created a work environment where people learn to drive impact, take risks and make big bets, and grow from feedback, all while feeling welcomed and accepted for who they are. Come join us on the adventure today!

Your Role At Bolt

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.

What You Will Be Doing

• 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

What Would Set You Up For Success

• 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

What Would Set You Apart

• 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

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Estimated Compensation For This Role

• Flat monthly fee: $16,666 - $18,750/month (all-in, no benefits)
• Full-time conversion includes RSUs and benefits

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Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage: Medical, dental and vision
• Remote-first workplace
• Time away: Minimum of 20 days guaranteed PTO, paid holidays + floating holidays, your birthday off!
• Paid parental leave
• Competitive Pay
• Retirement plans
• Virtual and in-person team & company events

In addition to our core values, Bolt is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity and expression, genetic information, pregnancy and related conditions, veteran status or any other reason prohibited by law. On our mission to democratize commerce, the Bolt platform levels the playing field for everyone. As a company, we are committed to designing products, building a culture, and supporting a team that reflects the diverse population we serve (that is, everyone).