--- title: 'Platform Engineer: Platform Enablement at Constructor' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/platform-engineer-platform-enablement-constructor-remote-jn4v11cxmpw1' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Platform Engineer: Platform Enablement at Constructor - **Company:** Constructor - **Location:** Remote - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-08-10 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/constructor/fe2b4f29-b0d8-4944-bf3a-89596746a9c9 ## Job description ## About Us Launched in 2019, Constructor is an AI-first ecommerce search and discovery platform that helps shoppers find the right products at the right time and enables leading global e-commerce brands to drive meaningful revenue and conversion gains. ## About the role Our Platform Enablement team is a developer-centric SRE team dedicated to treating our internal engineers as our primary customers. We maintain the foundational layers that impact daily workflows—including observability, CI/CD, and workload orchestration—with the goal of making it simpler and more efficient for teams to deploy and manage their services. If you are passionate about eliminating friction, automating repetitive tasks, and engineering self-service architectures, we would love to meet you. ## What You'll Do - Manage and advance our internal observability ecosystem, including technologies like Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, and OpenSearch, to empower teams in troubleshooting their own workloads. - Enhance CI/CD workflows and developer utilities using Jenkins and GitHub Actions to optimize the build and deployment lifecycle. - Guide the adoption of Kubernetes and establish standardized patterns for deploying various workloads. - Collaborate closely with engineering teams to resolve technical bottlenecks and build custom tooling when existing solutions fall short. - Contribute to the development and maintenance of our Internal Developer Platform based on Backstage. - Develop and support specialized tooling for AI-driven initiatives. ## What You'll Bring - More than 5 years of professional experience in SRE or DevOps roles with a clear emphasis on enabling developer success. - Strong interpersonal skills and a deep sense of empathy for the challenges faced by software developers. - Proven expertise in AWS and Kubernetes environments, coupled with a mastery of Infrastructure as Code via Terraform or similar frameworks. - Practical experience managing monitoring stacks and deployment pipelines at scale. - A natural inclination toward building automated, reusable systems that favor self-service over manual intervention. - A track record of integrating AI tools into your engineering methodology to improve productivity. ## Nice to Have - Familiarity with the broader ecosystem including ClickHouse, Sentry, or developer portals like Backstage. - Understanding of FinOps principles and strategies for optimizing infrastructure expenditure. - Previous involvement in constructing or scaling internal developer platforms. ## Benefits - 🏝️ Unlimited vacation time - we strongly encourage all of our employees take at least 3 weeks per year - 🌎 Fully remote team - choose where you live - 🛋️ Work from home stipend! We want you to have the resources you need to set up your home office - 💻 Apple laptops provided for new employees - 🧑‍🎓 Training and development budget for every employee, refreshed each year - 👪 Maternity & Paternity leave for qualified employees - 🧠 Work with smart people who will help you grow and make a meaningful impact - 💵 This position has a base salary range between $80k and $120k USD. The offer varies on many factors including job related knowledge, skills, experience, and interview results. - 🎉 Regular team offsites to connect and collaborate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Constructor At [Constructor.io](http://Constructor.io) we are committed to cultivating a work environment that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome individuals of all backgrounds and provide equal opportunities to all applicants regardless of their education, diversity of opinion, race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or affiliation in any other protected group. Studies have shown that women and people of color may be less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every one of the qualifications listed. Our primary interest is in finding the best candidate for the job. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of our listed qualifications. ## About Constructor ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI-powered ecommerce search and product discovery (SaaS) - **Target customers**: B2B, enterprise ecommerce brands, retailers, distributors, and marketplaces - **Mission/purpose**: To automate the rich complexity required for a modern search experience behind a simple, elegant SaaS solution, helping shoppers find what they want to buy using natural language and AI. ## Products & Services - **AI Shopping Agent**: Natural language conversational agent that helps shoppers discover products and answer questions. - **Search & Browse**: Personalized search and category browsing with reinforcement learning. - **Recommendations**: Product recommendations for onsite, email, SMS, and mobile notifications. - **Retail Media**: Sponsored products and ads that don’t sacrifice customer experience. - **Merchandiser Controls**: Tools for merchants to manage rankings, promotions, and experiments. - **Insights & Automations**: Dashboards, reports, and automated attribute enrichment using GenAI. - **Answer Engine Assistants (Beta)**: Integration with ChatGPT and other answer engines for offsite discovery. - **Merchant Intelligence Agent (Beta)**: Research and fix ranking issues. - **Product Insights Agent**: Generate personalized product questions to help shoppers buy with confidence. - **Collections**: Dynamic, curated product pages. - **In-Store**: Extend online intelligence to physical stores. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private) - **Key Metric**: $40.0M annual revenue (LinkedIn estimate); $86.1M total funding across 4 rounds - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not named in provided sources, but clients include Sephora, Under Armour, Petco, and many others. - **Growth Signals**: - 336 employees (LinkedIn) / 375+ team members (company site), +48% YoY headcount growth - 400+ billion requests powered per year - 98.5% average client retention rate over the last three years - Named a Leader in Forrester Wave (Commerce Search & Product Discovery, Q3 2025), Gartner Magic Quadrant (Search & Product Discovery, 2025), and IDC MarketScape - Top rated on G2 Crowd and Gartner Peer Reviews (4.9 and 4.8 respectively) - 94% team member retention rate ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-native from day one**: Built on clickstream data and advanced AI, not bolted onto legacy keyword search. - **Reinforcement learning across touchpoints**: Every interaction (search, browse, agent) makes the system smarter. - **API-first, headless, composable, platform-agnostic**: Easy integration with any tech stack. - **Ecommerce-specific optimization**: Sole focus on commerce metrics (revenue, conversion, profit), consistently delivering $10M+ revenue lifts for customers. - **Only vendor named a Leader by three independent analyst firms (Forrester, Gartner, IDC)**. ## Strategic Focus - **AI agents and reasoning**: Expanding AI Shopping Agents, Answer Engine Assistants, and Merchant Intelligence Agents. - **Offsite discovery**: Enabling discovery via email, SMS, and answer engines like ChatGPT. - **In-store integration**: Extending online intelligence to physical retail. - **Continued investment in personalization and automation** to reduce setup time (8 weeks or less). ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Remote-first, 100% remote – choose where you live. Collaborative, empathetic, and problem-solving environment. Rated top 5% on RepVue and a Will Reed Top 100 award recipient. - **Benefits**: - Company pays 99% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for US team members. - Unlimited PTO and vacation time (minimum 3 mandatory weeks off per year). - Paid parental leave. - Yearly Remote Work Stipend + one-time $500 New Hire Setup Stipend. - Yearly Learning & Development $500 Stipend. - Stock options for every team member. - Company-issued Apple laptop. - **Growth**: Fast-growing startup with opportunities to work on challenging AI/ML problems used by millions of shoppers. Mentorship, autonomy, and career development. - **Diversity & Inclusion**: Committed to DEI with an internal ERG. - **Team**: 94% retention rate; described as collaborative, brilliant people who enjoy solving hard problems. ## Sources 1. [Constructor Careers Page](https://constructor.com/about/careers) 2. [Constructor Main Website](https://constructor.com/) 3. [Constructor LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/constructor-io) 4. [Constructor About Page](https://constructor.com/about) 5. [CB Insights Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/constructorio) (used for funding and revenue data, though not directly cited in text – revenue from LinkedIn) ## Other roles at Constructor - [Staff Product Manager: Product Discovery Engine](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-product-manager-product-discovery-engine-constructor-remote-gb8a7v1gkqah) - [Customer Success Enablement Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/customer-success-enablement-manager-constructor-amer-pvkxtwm1yxws) — AMER - [Senior Customer Success Manager - Nordics](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-customer-success-manager-nordics-constructor-sweden-q7mbnfe85d9b) — Sweden - [Sr. Customer Success Manager (French Speaking)](https://feeny.ai/job/sr-customer-success-manager-french-speaking-constructor-france-n0809w6gb2v2) — France - [FullStack Engineer - Prospect UI Solutions](https://feeny.ai/job/fullstack-engineer-prospect-ui-solutions-constructor-remote-g6jgr2q79412) - [Director of Information Security](https://feeny.ai/job/director-of-information-security-constructor-emea-3qbt89fc9ne7) — EMEA - [Account Manager, DACH](https://feeny.ai/job/account-manager-dach-constructor-emea-wc72h030b83v) — EMEA - [Technical Support Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/technical-support-engineer-constructor-emea-fxdcvm2eq3fa) — EMEA - [Engineering Manager - Customer Developer Experience](https://feeny.ai/job/engineering-manager-customer-developer-experience-constructor-remote-v1y9wfa27acx) - [Engineering Manager: Agentic Integrations](https://feeny.ai/job/engineering-manager-agentic-integrations-constructor-remote-s5hw0am1dwnx)