Staff Platform Engineer

Staff Platform Engineer - Earthly Lunar Write production software, design the cloud architecture behind it, and own how it runs in the real world. About Earthly Lunar Earthly Lunar is a guardrails engine for the AI era. Engineering organizations use it to turn their standards for quality, security, and compliance into automated checks across their repositories and CI/CD pipelines. Teams get feedback directly in pull requests, leaders can see where standards aren't being met, and compliance evidence is collected as the work happens. The standards apply whether a developer or an AI agent writes the code. We're a small, AI-native team backed by Innovation Endeavors and Work-Bench, with angels including Jeff Dean, the CEOs of Datadog, Cockroach Labs, and Dash0, the founder of Sentry, and the creators of Elixir, Pandas, and Ruff/uv. We're building for enterprise engineering teams with complex environments and high expectations for reliability. The role We're looking for someone who is an excellent software engineer and an excellent cloud engineer. You can design and build a substantial backend feature in Go, work through the architecture it needs, deploy it safely, and debug it when production behaves differently from the test environment. You'll work on Lunar's core product and the infrastructure that runs it, across our hosted service and customer-managed deployments. That includes backend services, deployment automation, Kubernetes, and the operational work that makes enterpris