ezCater is the leading food for work technology company in the US, connecting anyone who needs food for their workplace to over 100,000 restaurants nationwide. For workplaces, ezCater provides flexible and scalable solutions for everything from recurring employee meals to one-off meetings, all backed by 24/7 customer service with real humans. ezCater also enables companies to manage their food spend in a single, customizable platform. For restaurant partners, ezCater helps them grow their business by bringing them more orders and new high-value customers. We're backed by top investors including Insight, Iconiq, Lightspeed, GIC, SoftBank, and Quadrille.

The Platform Infrastructure team at ezCater is responsible for the cloud, runtime, and operational foundations that all product and platform teams build upon. This includes how services are deployed, observed, scaled, secured, and operated in production.

As a Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure, you are a senior technical leader focused on building and evolving ezCater’s internal platform: the Kubernetes-based runtime, core infrastructure services, and operational tooling that enable teams to ship reliably and at scale. This is a true Platform Engineering role — deeply technical, highly cross-cutting, and measured by the leverage it creates for the broader engineering organization.

As ezCater modernizes its architecture and builds a new platform for future growth, the Platform Infrastructure team will provide the foundation that everything else depends on. The Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure is going to play a critical role in ensuring that this foundation is scalable, observable, and built to support the next decade of ezCater’s growth.

What You’ll Do:

Design and evolve ezCater’s cloud and runtime platform, including Kubernetes (EKS) and supporting infrastructure
Own platform primitives and services that standardize how teams deploy, operate, and observe systems in production
Ensure engineering teams can deploy and operate services with minimal friction and high confidence
Drive reliability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence across platform-managed services
Establish architectural standards and best practices for service runtime, networking, configuration, and deployment
Partner with new platform engineers to ensure infrastructure enables — rather than constrains — platform capabilities
Build observability foundations using OpenTelemetry and tools such as Datadog, Sumo Logic, or similar
Lead through technical execution and influence
Mentor engineers across the organization on cloud-native and operational best practices
Raise the bar for platform reliability, clarity, and long-term maintainability

What you have:

7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant focus on platform or infrastructure engineering
Strong experience with Kubernetes and managed container platforms (EKS strongly preferred)
Hands-on experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS
Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Go or Python
Deep understanding of observability, including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
Experience building scalable, highly available distributed systems
Strong grasp of performance tuning, capacity planning, and reliability engineering concepts
Excellent communication skills and comfort collaborating across many teams
Friendly, flexible and pragmatic approach to work

The national total target cash compensation range for this position, including base salary and bonus target, is $185,000–$232,000 annually.*

*Please note: Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise and region & may vary from the amount above. This range does not represent additional compensation benefits (such as equity, 401K or medical, dental or vision insurance).

Please have fun with the Cover Letter portion of the application! It does not need to follow “traditional” cover letter guidelines - we would love for you to write 150-500 words explaining why you are interested in ezCater and the role, and highlighting anything else you think we should know!

ezCater does not sponsor applicants for work visas or legal permanent residence.

What You’ll Get from Us:

You’ll get a terrifically compelling experience in an innovative, high performing environment. You’ll get to work with engaged and passionate colleagues on challenging and impactful projects. You will have opportunities to grow in your career, and work in a place that values work/life harmony.

Oh, and you’ll get all this: Market competitive salary, stock options that you’ll help make worth a lot, 12 paid holidays, flexible PTO, 401K with ezCater match, health/dental/FSA, long-term disability insurance, mental health and family planning resources, remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston office OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office, a tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy, wicked awesome co-workers, Relish (and many more goodies) when you’re in our office, and knowing that you helped transform the food for work space.

ezCater is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace humans of every background, appearance, race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, and disability status. At the same time, we do not employ jerks, even brilliant ones. Following a conditional offer of employment, ezCater may require a background check.

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