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.