Hire a Platform Engineer
The infrastructure hire who makes everyone else faster.
Platform engineers are the hardest role to source
- Retained recruiters.
- LinkedIn Recruiter seats.
- Keyword-matched resumes.
- Templated InMails.
Great platform engineers are invisible when things work and irreplaceable when they don't. They build the systems that every other engineer depends on: CI/CD, observability, deployment, developer tooling. Finding someone with deep infrastructure skills who also cares about developer experience is genuinely rare.
The candidates you want are not scrolling job boards. They're deep in Kubernetes configs, contributing to open source infrastructure projects, or quietly keeping a startup's entire platform running. They often don't even have 'platform engineer' in their title.
“Your outreach emails are too good, candidate quality is the highest by far. We certainly wouldn't have found this person on our own.”
How Superposition finds your platform engineer
Proven results
We placed a platform engineer at Plastic Labs: 43,802 candidates researched, 15 high-conviction matches, signed offer in 5 weeks.
Technical depth in sourcing
Our agent understands the difference between a DevOps generalist and a platform engineer who can design your core service layer.
Open source signal
We find candidates through their contributions, not just their LinkedIn profiles, infrastructure repos, blog posts, conference talks.
Personalized outreach
Messages that reference the candidate's actual work and explain why your specific platform challenge would be interesting to them.
“Your outreach emails are too good, candidate quality is the highest by far. We certainly wouldn't have found this person on our own.”
Questions.
Answered.
At startup scale they overlap heavily and the same candidates apply to all three. What matters is whether they have owned production end to end rather than one slice of a large system.
Usually when your engineers are spending more than a day a week on deploys, environments and on-call rather than product. Before that, a platform hire builds things nobody needs yet.
Rarely. Judgement about what not to build transfers better than familiarity with a particular traffic level, and people from very large systems sometimes over-engineer for a startup.
Almost always, at least initially. A platform engineer who does not carry the pager builds systems they never have to live with.
Find your platform engineer.
We researched 43,802 candidates for Plastic Labs. Let us do the same for you.