Lead Platform Engineer – Developer Experience

Job overview

The Lead Platform Engineer – Developer Experience role is listed in New York, NY, with a hybrid schedule preferred and potential for remote work in the Eastern or Central time zones if the candidate cannot commute to the office. The posting states a base salary of up to approximately $260,000, based on experience, plus a year-end bonus guaranteed for the first year. The role supports a global financial technology organization. The position exists to build and operate developer-facing platforms, tooling, and automation that reduce friction across software development, testing, deployment, and production operations. It combines hands-on engineering and technical leadership to improve developer productivity, reliability, and safe use of AI-assisted development tools.

What you'll do

• Design and build systems incorporating generative AI into software development and operations
• evaluate, integrate, and operate AI developer tools
• maintain source control, CI/CD infrastructure, developer tooling, processes, and integrations
• build feature flagging, progressive delivery, deployment, and rollback capabilities
• develop on-demand testing environments
• improve observability across metrics, logs, traces, and events
• define developer productivity and satisfaction metrics
• establish engineering practices through development, architecture, code reviews, and technical leadership
• own critical infrastructure services while contributing as a senior individual contributor.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

lead platform engineer

developer experience

platform engineering

ci/cd

developer tooling

observability

generative ai

new york ny

hybrid preferred

remote potential

up to $260k base

year-end bonus

python

java

go

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Year-end bonus guaranteed for the first year of employment.

Why this role

Hybrid schedule in New York is preferred; remote work may be possible for candidates in Eastern or Central time zones who are not commutable to the office. Year-end bonus is guaranteed for the first year.

About the employer

2Bridge Partners is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.