Staff Platform Engineer

At Forge, we know our team is our greatest asset. As technology innovators in the private market, our vision is to deliver a richer future for everyone. We live that vision through our values of being bold, accountable, and humble. We experience the value that our vision brings to the world every day, helping the teams behind the greatest innovations of our generation, from space travel to artificial intelligence, and more. With liquidity solutions, exclusive data and insights, a custody offering, and a vibrant marketplace, Forge’s goal is to build the best-in-class technology infrastructure to power a global private market that is transparent, accessible, and seamless for companies, their employees, and investors. Through Forge, employees can sell their private shares, employers can reward shareholders with pre-IPO liquidity and individual and institutional investors can participate in private unicorn growth. Forge's differentiated global marketplace addresses rising demand among individual and institutional investors for exposure to private company stocks and is building a growing network effect. Our ability to offer these powerful financial solutions has generated incredible interest from investors, demand from customers, and a need to grow our team to meet the needs of more companies, teams, and innovators in this way. The Role: Forge’s platform engineering team is passionate about innovation and building scalable, secure infrastructure solutions that drive liquidity and growth in the private market. Our teams are leveraging a broad range of technologies to support our core platform, Metal, and we thrive on moving fast, delivering value, and living our values of being bold, humble and accountable. We are seeking a passionate platform engineer with at least 7 years of experience delivering robust infrastructure solutions that are scalable, secure, and easy to maintain. The ideal candidate thrives in team settings and is motivated by creating success all around them through strong communication, architecting great developer experiences, and making data-driven decisions. To succeed in the Staff Platform Engineer role at Forge, you'll leverage your infrastructure and software expertise to successfully deliver high-quality platforms both individually and through technical leadership of others. You will have the ability to take on advanced infrastructure projects—ranging from multi-cluster orchestration to SOC 2 compliance automation—while also being a productive and collaborative member of the team. Location: This role requires 2-3 days a week in office in Soho, NY. Responsibilities: Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable infrastructure using Terraform and Kubernetes Architect and manage GitOps delivery pipelines (e.g., Flux) to streamline deployments across multiple applications, environments, and tech stacks Bridge the gap between infrastructure and software engineering by building internal tooling and automation through code Collaborate with development teams to understand system domains, promote DevOps best practices, and improve developer velocity Drive platform security and governance initiatives, including policy-as-code implementations (e.g., Kyverno) and compliance support Mentor engineering team members through pairing, documentation, code reviews, and knowledge-sharing Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field 7+ years of experience in software or platform engineering with a strong focus on infrastructure and DevOps Deep, hands-on expertise in Kubernetes administration and the cloud-native ecosystem Advanced proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform Extensive experience designing and operating GitOps workflows (e.g., Argo CD, Flux) Strong software engineering skills with the ability to read, write, and debug code across multiple application Preferred Skills (Nice-to-Have) Experience with C# and Dotnet framework Experience with Azure and AWS Cloud infrastructure. Experience working in geographically distributed teams Fintech or Financial services industry experience. For residents of New York, New York the annual salary range for this role is $167,000 - $190,000+ annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, bonus, and other factors Upon offer, we conduct background checks that include employment and education verification, state, and county criminal history searches. Forge is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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