Staff Software Engineer - Platform

OpenSea is building the gateway to the onchain economy - a rich world of communities, assets & creative expression uniquely possible with native digital ownership. Our products support millions of users and have helped shape onchain markets that exist today—and we're just getting started. Our goal is to build the highest-leverage, most AI-native team in crypto (and ideally beyond.) We believe that a small team (broken into even smaller teams with extreme ownership) can accomplish enormous results with the right people, the right tools, and the right company-wide investments in AI. We are building that team. We're looking for a highly skilled, curious, and self-driven Staff Platform Engineer to help build the technical foundations that power OpenSea. In this role, you'll design and evolve the platform, services, and infrastructure that enable our engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate products quickly, reliably, and at scale. You'll partner closely with product engineers to improve developer experience, system performance, and operational excellence while helping evolve the AI-enabled workflows, engineering systems, and technical foundations that make our entire team more effective builders. Responsibilities In the age of AI, Platform teams have two main roles - architect, build, and maintain critical systems, and enable the rest of the team to work safely and productively across your areas of ownership. Our goal is to make the systems protect themselves and enable everyone to build quickly. - Design, build, and evolve the platform services, infrastructure, and internal tooling that power OpenSea's products - Own complex technical systems from definition through implementation, balancing scalability, reliability, maintainability, and developer experience - Bring best-in-class observability, monitoring and alerting to all of the systems at OpenSea - Maintain and improve AI skills & tools to make our systems more accessible, introspectable and easy to contribu

Department: Engineering; Team: Engineering