Platform Engineer - Integrations at Appwrite

About Appwrite

Appwrite is a distributed, open source company building a backend-as-a-service platform for developers. Our team is fully remote and focused on delivering reliable developer tools and infrastructure that help teams ship faster and scale with confidence.

About the job

We are hiring a Platform Engineer to join the integrations team. You will build scalable, reliable systems that power growth, billing, and analytics for the Appwrite platform. This role collaborates closely with product, platform, and growth teams to design backend services, data pipelines, and automation that support user acquisition, retention, and operational excellence. You will own projects from concept to deployment and contribute to our open source community.

Responsibilities

• Own billing and payments end-to-end, ensuring transactions are accurate, secure, compliant, and audit-ready.
• Design, build, and scale highly available APIs and backend services across the Appwrite platform.
• Develop and maintain reusable Infrastructure as Code modules to manage environments across cloud providers.
• Build internal tooling to accelerate deployments, manage clusters, and streamline configuration.
• Collaborate with product and platform teams to integrate new services into the architecture.
• Ship intuitive front-end features in the Console that surface usage, billing, and integrations to developers.
• Ensure systems are observable and secure from day one through metrics, tracing, alerts, and policy-as-code.
• Monitor service health, identify bottlenecks, and optimize for cost, latency, and reliability.
• Contribute to documentation, automation, and developer experience improvements.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in backend, cloud, or infrastructure-heavy roles.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Hands-on experience with at least one cloud platform: AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or DigitalOcean.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation, for example Bash or Python.
• Familiarity with CI/CD workflows and tools such as GitHub Actions.
• Backend development experience with languages such as PHP, Node.js, Python, Dart, Go, or Ruby.
• Experience with relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, message brokers like RabbitMQ, and caching solutions like Redis.
• Strong understanding of web protocols and modern architectural patterns.
• Experience working on growth-oriented backend systems and billing or payments infrastructure is a plus.
• A passion for open source, developer tools, and clean, maintainable code.

Benefits

• 100% remote work, with coworking or office space costs covered if you prefer not to work from home.
• Equity and stock options for employees at a fast growing company backed by top VCs.
• Flexible hours and days to accommodate distributed time zones; the team spans UTC+06:00 to UTC-06:00.
• Healthcare coverage including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. Full-time contractors will have healthcare cost factored into salary where applicable.
• Annual GitHub sponsorship of your choice.
• Learning budget of $3,000 USD for conferences, classes, or other professional development.
• Periodic in-person gatherings a couple times a year in locations such as NYC, London, LA, or Barcelona.
• Top notch equipment allowance - choose a laptop up to $3,000 USD, plus up to $500 USD reimbursement for office expenses.
• Coworking budget to cover workspace costs.

How to Apply

If you would like to join Appwrite as a Platform Engineer on the integrations team, we would love to hear from you. Apply via the job page.

Apply online: https://www.appwrite.careers/platform-engineer-integrations/en