Senior Platform Engineer

Our mission: to make it easy for anyone to make beautiful presentations, in minutes.

About Beautiful.ai

Beautiful.ai is changing the way the world presents by building fast, foolproof tools that enable anyone to tell visual stories that win. The Beautiful.ai team is a playful, driven, and passionate group of pet-lovers, video-gamers, and pickleball enthusiasts. With a globally-distributed remote team and a San Francisco-based office, we find unique opportunities to get to know each other personally, while delivering on our goals. Data-driven decision making and an outcomes-focused mindset are core to our way of working.

Today, Beautiful.ai equips 100,000+ happy paying customers, from start-ups to multinational Fortune 500 corporations, with a leading presentation software solution. Companies like SAP, HP, Rakuten, LIV Golf and more trust Beautiful.ai to tell their stories. We are a Series B company and have raised capital from prominent investors including Shasta Ventures, Trinity Ventures and First Round Capital and are led by our CTO/Founder, Mitch Grasso, who is a second-time founder in the presentation space.

About the role

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll design, build, and maintain the core infrastructure that powers our product, ensuring it is scalable, reliable, and secure. You will work with cloud technologies, automation tools, and observability systems, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize platform performance and mentor junior engineers.

What you'll do:

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure to support the scalability, reliability, and performance of our platform.
• Automate infrastructure management using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to streamline provisioning and scaling of cloud resources.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate testing, deployment, and continuous integration, ensuring that our development cycles are efficient and reliable.
• Containerize applications, ensuring that our services are highly available, scalable, and easily deployable.
• Improve platform performance and optimize backend systems, contributing to performance bottlenecks resolution and system troubleshooting.
• Monitor platform health by setting up observability tools and ensuring proactive alerting and issue resolution.
• Contribute to security best practices in infrastructure and platform services, ensuring the system adheres to industry security standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth platform operations, offering technical insights to development teams and resolving platform-related blockers.
• Troubleshoot and resolve incidents during on-call rotations, ensuring minimal downtime and fast recovery.
• Mentor and support junior engineers by sharing knowledge and providing guidance on technical decisions and best practices.

What we expect from you:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience). A Master’s degree is a plus.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in Software Engineering, with a backend or platform focus.
• Strong hands-on experience with GCP is preferred, but proficiency with any major cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure) is acceptable.
• Proven track record leading technical projects from design through implementation.
• Demonstrated strength in statistical and analytical thinking, with the ability to break down complex systems, evaluate performance metrics, and derive actionable insights.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Bay Area candidates preferred, or open to occasional travel as needed.

Our tech stack

Client Side: React, Webpack, vanilla Typescript/Javascript for SVG layout, rendering, and styling
Server Side: Node.js with Express for API and server side rendering, various distributed node.js microservices
Infrastructure on Google Cloud: App Engine, Firebase, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Stackdriver, Storage

Benefits:

• Flexible Time-Off & Remote Work
  
• Health Insurance – 100% employer-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage for employees; 60–65% coverage for dependents.
  
• Retirement Plan – Comprehensive 401(k) program.
  
• Savings Accounts – Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options available.
  
• Equity Compensation – Competitive equity package with a 4-year vesting schedule.
  
• Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance – Coverage provided where applicable.
  
• Parental Leave – Inclusive leave for birthing and non-birthing parents; policies vary by state.
  
• Volunteer Time Off (VTO) – Paid day off to support a nonprofit or community cause.