Senior Platform Engineer

Intangible

Full-time

Remote

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help scale our infrastructure. You’ll build and maintain the data and services powering our creative tools, ensuring speed, reliability, and scale. Our ideal candidate has deep expertise in managing content across asynchronous and real-time collaborative environments and orchestration of agentic APIs and data flows through these environments.

Location: Preference for SF/Bay Area, CA. Open to remote candidates in North America & Western EU.

What You'll Do

Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for Intangible’s platform layer
Design and evolve infrastructure for our AI-assisted, collaborative tools at scale
Lead the implementation of backend services and APIs with a focus on security, modularity, and performance

Responsibilities

Define and implement infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, and system health tooling
Ensure our systems meet high availability targets ("four nines") while remaining flexible for rapid iteration
Integrate 3rd-party services including AI pipelines, payments, analytics, and user auth
Collaborate across product, design, and ML to translate creative tooling needs into backend capabilities

Key Competencies

Deep understanding of distributed systems, WebSockets, WebTransport, and realtime sync
Optimizing schema and large data sets for use by LLMs
Architecting and deploying multi-tenant systems with strong role, permission, and tenant isolation
Managing schema migrations and cross-environment data synchronization safely
Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and IaC tools
Practical use of AI/ML models in production (e.g., inference pipelines)
Comfort working in a fast-moving, creative environment with a highly interdisciplinary team

Bonus Qualities

Experience with 3D tools or creative platforms
Passion for building creative tools and empowering artists

About Intangible

Intangible is building the world's simplest 3D storytelling tool for film, agencies, games, and events powered by AI. We make constructing 3D experiences dramatically faster, cheaper and more collaborative for creative, distributed teams.

We are an interdisciplinary team of engineers, artists and designers that have built and shipped multiple end-to-end products at companies like Apple, Unity, Pixar, ILM and Electronic Arts. Intangible is seed funded by a16z Speedrun, Crosslink Capital and prominent angels.

What it’s like to work at Intangible:

We care a lot about using AI to empower creatives making games, film, XR and web.
We are all doers. We care about shipping often, and with intent.
The best idea wins. We want opinionated people who debate respectfully.
We value people with consistently good judgment, regardless of rank.