Platform Services Engineer

Platform Services builds and maintains the core backend services and APIs that power Browserbase products. This team ensures developers—both internal and external—have a fast, reliable, and intuitive foundation to build on. From designing clean interfaces to operating critical services in production, Platform Services sits at the heart of how Browserbase works. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs that serve as foundational components across Browserbase’s product surface. - Develop reliable, well-structured service architectures, with a focus on clarity, maintainability, and long-term extensibility. - Work closely with product and engineering teams to gather requirements and deliver APIs and service abstractions that are intuitive and delightful to use. - Own projects end-to-end, from scoping and technical design through implementation, rollout, observability, and maintenance. - Improve developer experience through high-quality documentation, tooling, and thoughtful interface design. - Investigate, debug, and resolve operational issues in production systems. - Contribute to team standards for service architecture, API design, testing, and operational excellence. TECHNICAL SKILLS - Strong experience building backend services and APIs using Go or TypeScript. - Familiarity with HTTP/REST, WebSockets, RPC, authentication/authorization, service decomposition, and API lifecycle management. - Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes/Docker, and modern cloud infrastructure. - Solid understanding of relational databases and schema design. - Comfort with automated testing, performance tuning, and building resilient systems. - Bonus: experience with SDK development, API versioning strategies, observability tooling, or rate-limiting/quotas. YOU’RE A GOOD FIT IF YOU… - Have high agency: you can define direction, make informed tradeoffs, and drive projects without waiting for perfect clarity. - Are energized by owning problems independently and seeing them through to completion. - Communicate clearly—especially in writing—and tailor your communication to the audience. - Are adaptable, curious, and able to quickly understand unfamiliar codebases or problem domains. - Enjoy building alongside a sharp, fast-moving team where craftsmanship and pragmatism matter. - Are excited to work 5 days a week in our San Francisco HQ (or are open to relocating). WHY JOIN US - Work on foundational services used across every Browserbase product. - Shape the architecture and APIs that other teams rely on daily. - Collaborate with a small, high-bar engineering team that cares deeply about quality. - Make immediate, meaningful impact at an ambitious startup building infrastructure for the future of browser automation.