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.