Ditto, a fast-growing, globally distributed startup that provides a peer-to-peer sync engine for resilient, real-time data at the edge, is seeking a Platform Engineer to own and architect their CI/CD infrastructure. This role is highly strategic, giving the engineer end-to-end ownership of the critical deployment platform used by every engineer at Ditto.

This is a full-time, remote position in the United States. The base salary range is $169,176 – $300,000 USD.

Role Summary and Deployment Architecture Mandate

This Platform Engineer will define how Ditto ships software at scale, balancing rapid velocity with safety and reliability. You will build the systems that enforce quality and enable effortless, confident deployments across a microservices architecture. This is a chance to directly multiply the productivity of the entire engineering organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Platform Ownership & Architecture: Own the architecture and evolution of Ditto’s entire CI/CD platform, spanning from code commit to production deployment.
• Quality & Safety Enforcement: Design and build automated quality enforcement systems, including code coverage analysis, security vulnerability scanning, and compliance tracking infrastructure.
• Deployment Safety Mechanisms: Create advanced deployment safety mechanisms, such as automated validation pipelines, progressive rollout frameworks, and intelligent automatic rollback systems.
• Optimization & Standards: Optimize deployment pipeline infrastructure to enable rapid, confident releases. Establish the technical vision and standards for deployment safety, quality automation, and production risk management.
• Developer Experience: Partner with engineering teams to understand pain points and evolve the platform based on real developer needs, focusing on developer experience and pragmatism.

Required Experience and Technical Mindset

The ideal candidate is a seasoned platform engineer who views CI/CD as a cohesive system and possesses strong systems thinking, experience in production environments, and the ability to influence without formal authority.

• Experience (Required):
  • Deep experience building and scaling CI/CD infrastructure, deployment pipelines, or developer platform tooling in production environments.
  • Strong systems thinking—thinking-the ability to architect for long-term platform evolution, seeing CI/CD as a cohesive platform, not disconnected tools.
  • Track record of driving adoption through empathy and pragmatism (developer experience focus).
  • Comfort operating under visibility and production responsibility (deployment infrastructure is mission-critical).
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence without authority.
  • A proactive attitude about how AI can support automation and thoughtful decision-making in the role.

Great-to-Haves (Bonus):

• Experience implementing progressive delivery patterns (canary deployments, feature flags, traffic shaping) at scale.
• Background in SRE, production operations, or incident management.
• Prior work in high-growth or hypergrowth environments.
• Familiarity with modern deployment ecosystems (Kubernetes, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Harness, or similar) and observability platforms.
• Experience establishing quality standards and achieving enthusiastic adoption across engineering organizations.