Senior Platform Engineer
Daytona
Software Engineering
Posted on Nov 7, 2025
Senior Platform Engineer
Location: New York, San Francisco or Croatia
Type: Full-time
About the Role
We’re seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to help build and scale Daytona’s core components. You’ll work on the APIs, orchestrator, and supporting services that form the backbone of Daytona’s runtime layer.
This is a highly technical role where you’ll architect, implement, and optimize mission-critical infrastructure that powers thousands of developers and millions of AI agents. If building reliable, elegant, and extensible platforms excites you, this role is for you.
What You'll Be Doing
Design, build, and maintain Daytona’s core APIs and orchestrator
Develop supporting services and tooling that improve scalability and reliability
Collaborate with AI and systems engineers to ensure seamless integrations across the stack
Improve developer experience through robust abstractions and interfaces
Contribute to standards and best practices for system design and service architecture
Write documentation, developer guides, and tooling references
You Might Be a Fit If You
Have experience building distributed systems, APIs, and large-scale services
Are comfortable with orchestration, scheduling, and service-to-service communication
Care deeply about reliability, security, and performance at scale
Write clean, maintainable code and value long-term platform stability
Enjoy working across multiple layers of the stack
Bonus Points
Experience with Kubernetes, container runtimes, or orchestration frameworks
Familiarity with developer tooling, infra platforms, or AI runtime layers
Contributions to open-source projects in distributed systems or platform engineering
About Daytona
Daytona is building the agent-native runtime layer for modern software development. Our platform spins up secure, sandboxed environments in under 90ms, used by developers and AI agents alike. Daytona is open source, trusted by thousands, and backed by top-tier investors.
We’re not just making dev environments faster. We’re redefining how software gets built.
You can send your application directly to careers@daytona.io.
Successful candidates will be contacted for an interview. We appreciate all the applications we receive, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.