Join Moment as a Platform Engineer to architect and optimize cloud infrastructure while mentoring a talented engineering team.
Posted by employer 5 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 10 hours ago
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Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Platform Engineer at Moment plays a crucial role in enhancing the internal infrastructure that supports the engineering team, focusing on both high-level architectural design in AWS and low-level backend development in Go. This position requires a strong background in backend programming and cloud management, particularly with AWS services, to create tools that streamline developer workflows. Ideal candidates are those who thrive in high-pressure environments and possess a mindset geared towards improving developer experience. Moment's team is characterized by its exceptional talent and a commitment to building innovative solutions in investment management.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Moment's careers page October 29, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 87% of 119 comparable senior backend roles in United States that list AWS we track (median $173,000 across 53 companies). See AWS salary trends
- AWS appears in 31.7% of 521 comparable senior backend roles in United States; gRPC appears in 6.5% of 521 comparable senior backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Platform Engineer role remote?
- No — this is an on-site role in New York, NY.
- What's the salary range?
- Moment lists $200,000–$400,000 for this role.
- Where is the role based?
- Moment is hiring for this position in New York, NY.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Go, OpenAPI, gRPC.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Moment targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Platform Engineer role at Moment.
From the original posting
The Role
At Moment, the Platform team’s job is to pave the road for success. We exist to help engineers move quicker, safer, and with deeper visibility. We treat our internal platform as a product, with our engineers as the customers.
We are looking for an engineer who can balance high-level architectural design in AWS with low-level backend coding in Go. You will bridge the gap between infrastructure and application code. You will find and implement opportunities to increase every developer’s leverage.
What you'll do...
Architect "golden paths”. You will build and maintain the core shared libraries, SDKs, and code-generation tools (gRPC, OpenAPI) that power our entire engineering organization. Our goal is to abstract away complexity so product teams can ship features faster and safer.
Design and optimize cloud infrastructure. You will take ownership of our AWS ecosystem (ECS, RDS, MSK, etc.). You will design capable architectures on a whiteboard and are comfortable getting your hands dirty debugging production performance, tuning database parameters, and automating toil.
Treat the platform as the product. You will embed with product teams to understand their friction points, treating them as your customers. You will champion a philosophy where we build tools that are intuitive and helpful.
Elevate observability. You will set the standard for how we observe and debug our systems. This involves going deep into the stack to debug distributed system failures, improving our alerting strategy to reduce noise, and teaching the wider engineering team how to troubleshoot effectively.
Be a mentor and technical leader. You will also drive technical standards across the company by documenting patterns, writing clear guides, presenting to all engineers, and mentoring engineers on best practices.
You’re a good fit if you have
You have deep expertise in backend programming. You have significant experience building high-performance backend services or libraries. You understand the nuances of the language and how to write code that others find easy to read and import.
You have deep cloud fluency. You have architected and managed production workloads on AWS or other clouds. You know your way around ECS, RDS, Lambda and data streaming services, and you understand the trade-offs between cost, performance, and complexity.
You have a DevEx mindset. You have a history of building tools that make developers' lives easier. You understand that documentation is a feature, and you take pride in writing clear, accessible guides for your tools.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $200K to $400K
Equity: aggressive initial grant + annual performance-based bonuses
Free lunch and dinner.
$150 monthly gym stipend.
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