Founding Staff Platform Engineer

Join Clutch, a fast-growing startup, as our first dedicated Staff Platform Engineer. In this role, you will define and execute our Platform Engineering strategy, build and evolve our Internal Developer Platform, and own the architecture and evolution of our CI/CD platform. You will have the autonomy to build the platform the right way and create leverage for dozens of engineers. This is a rare opportunity to build Platform Engineering from the ground up and grow the team as Clutch continues to scale.

• Definir y ejecutar la estrategia de Ingeniería de Plataforma de Clutch, construyendo y evolucionando la Plataforma de Desarrollo Interno.
• Ser responsable de la arquitectura y evolución de nuestra plataforma CI/CD y flujos de trabajo de implementación.
• Mejorar la velocidad del desarrollador a través de la automatización, las herramientas de plataforma y las mejoras de infraestructura.

• We're looking for someone who enjoys solving organization-wide engineering problems, thinks in systems rather than individual services, and wants to create leverage for dozens of engineers rather than shipping features for one product team
• 8+ years building cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or developer tooling at scale
• Proven ability to identify organization-wide technical problems and build long-term solutions rather than short-term fixes
• Excellent written communication and documentation skills with the ability to influence engineers and technical leadership
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup environment with significant ownership and ambiguity
• Experience designing scalable developer platforms, deployment systems, or engineering enablement tooling
• Experience operating as a Staff Engineer, Technical Lead, or senior individual contributor driving technical strategy across multiple teams
• Strong software engineering mindset with experience building tooling in Python, Go, JavaScript, or similar languages
• Deep experience with AWS, Terraform, Docker, and modern CI/CD platforms
• Experience with feature flagging platforms
• Experience with Monorepo tooling
• Experience designing an Internal Developer Platform