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title: 'Staff Platform Engineer at Zencoder'
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# Staff Platform Engineer at Zencoder

- **Company:** Zencoder
- **Location:** Europe
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-04-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/zencoder/jobs/5117063007

## Job description

## About Zencoder

At [Zencoder.ai](http://Zencoder.ai), we build and orchestrate AI agents that ship real work - code, research, operations, and more. What started as developer tooling is becoming a platform where people and agents collaborate across knowledge work tasks.

The Opportunity

We're looking for an experienced engineer to raise the bar on how our organization builds, tests, ships, and operates software - for both human engineers and AI coding agents.

This is AI harness engineering: the discipline of making the fundamentals (CI/CD, testing, IaC, observability, secure delivery) so solid and well-shaped that agents can work productively inside them. Developer experience and platform engineering are a subset of that work. When the harness is good, humans ship faster and agents stop getting stuck on things that shouldn't be hard.

Security is inseparable from this. AI agents are accelerating both the pace and the shape of vulnerabilities, and secure delivery has to be built into the same stream as everything else - not bolted on.

Product teams own their services, pipelines, and tests. Your job is to raise the ceiling across the org - defining standards, building leverage, and helping teams level up their workflows, tooling, infrastructure, security posture, and necessary changes to get the most out of coding agents.

## Key Responsibilities

This is a hands-on lead role - you'll be deep in the code, infra, and pipelines yourself.

- Shape the platform and infrastructure that everything else runs on - the foundations product teams build on top of;
- Improve the full developer loop: local development, remote agents, CI/CD, deployment, observability;
- Build shared tooling, templates, and golden paths that create real leverage - paved roads teams actually want to use;
- Stay ahead of the shifting security landscape as AI agents reshape both how vulnerabilities emerge and how they're exploited.

Essential Qualifications

- Strong software engineering background - you will be building both tooling and managing core infrastructure in this role;
- Real fluency with AI coding agents - how they work, where they fail, and what makes them effective;
- A product mindset toward internal tooling - treating engineers and agents as users, and measuring whether the platform actually makes them faster;
- Deep experience with CI/CD, automated testing, IaC, Cloud and developer tooling;
- A passion for software security and secure delivery practices (shift-left / SecDevOps etc) in both the classical context and the new AI agent context.

Why Join Zencoder?

- Impact AI is reshaping how work gets done, and you'll be at the forefront of that shift, building a product that enables teams to get more done with AI. We use our own products every day, so you'll see how your work lands right away.
- AI-First We use AI to expand what one person can accomplish. You'll constantly rethink how you work: what to hand over to AI, and where your own judgment matters most.
- Ownership We keep the team small and give people real scope, autonomy, and equity. You'll take initiative, make decisions, and see your work through to real outcomes, raising the bar with every iteration.
- High Talent Density A small team of highly capable people moves faster and builds better. You'll work directly with senior teammates and our founder, Andrew Filev, in a flat structure where ideas win on merit, not titles.
- Remote-First We hire globally, prioritizing talent over location, so you can work where you're most productive. Prefer in-person? We have a hub in Barcelona with weekly co-working.

Zencoder is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

## About Zencoder

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Zencoder builds and orchestrates AI agents that automate software development, enabling developers to plan, build, test, and verify code through spec-driven workflows and multi-model orchestration.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed Stage)
- **Headquarters**: Campbell, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Andrew Filev

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: AI-powered software development, AI agent orchestration, developer tools
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise engineering teams shipping at scale
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "We advance human knowledge by combining frontier AI research with hands-on R&D to create safe, powerful AI solutions."

## Products & Services
- **Zencoder AI Coding Agent**: A platform that orchestrates AI agents across the software development lifecycle. Agents plan, build, test, and verify code using spec-driven workflows. Supports multi-repository intelligence, cross-agent review, and parallel execution. Integrates with GitHub, GitLab, Jira, CI/CD, Slack, and 100+ tools via MCP. Offers flexible deployment (cloud, on-premise, hybrid) and multi-model orchestration (Claude Opus, Google Gemini, OpenAI Codex). Includes built-in quality gates, governance, and access controls (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 42001 certified).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Seed round raised in July 2025 (investor not publicly named); acquired Machinet in April 2025
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed; integrates with GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Slack, Okta, Google Workspace, and all major frontier AI models (Claude, Gemini, Codex)
- **Growth Signals**: 49 employees as of mid-2026 (+26.8% YoY); LinkedIn followers grew 102.1% in the last year; operates in 14 countries; acquired Machinet in April 2025; seed round closed July 2025

## Competitive Advantages
- **Spec-Driven Workflow Architecture**: Unlike simple code completion tools, Zencoder enforces a "spec → plan → build → verify" workflow, ensuring every output is verified against team standards before shipping.
- **Multi-Model Orchestration**: Uses the best model for each task (Claude for planning, Gemini for building, Codex for review), optimizing for quality, cost, and speed simultaneously.
- **Enterprise-Grade Security**: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and ISO 42001 certified with zero code storage, zero model training on customer data, and full audit trails.
- **Multi-Repository Intelligence**: Agents reason across service boundaries and shared dependencies, making it viable for large-scale engineering orgs with 5 to 500+ repos.
- **Flexible Deployment**: Cloud, on-premise, or hybrid with BYOK for existing OpenAI/Anthropic agreements.

## Strategic Focus
- **Platform Expansion**: Moving from developer tooling to a broader platform where people and AI agents collaborate across all knowledge work tasks.
- **Enterprise Adoption**: Building governance, security, and workflow standardization features required by large engineering organizations.
- **Multi-Model Orchestration**: Continuing to optimize cost and quality by routing tasks to the most appropriate frontier model.
- **Global Talent Acquisition**: Actively hiring across Europe and the US, with a distributed team spanning 14 countries.

## Why Work Here
- **High-Impact, Small Teams**: The company has 70+ people (per their website) with a flat structure where early employees lead entire product areas. Scope grows with the company.
- **Build What You Use**: The team uses Zencoder daily. Every feature ships with real feedback from the people who built it. You'll know your work matters because you'll feel it.
- **Strong Peers**: Team includes AI engineers, former enterprise builders, and people who've shipped products used by millions. The bar is high and feedback is direct.
- **Cutting-Edge Domain**: AI-assisted software engineering is a new field with no established playbook. Opportunity to define how developers will work in 5 years.
- **Remote-First Culture**: Remote roles available across Europe and the US. Distributed team with offices in Campbell, CA and employees across 14 countries.
- **Startup Spirit**: Dynamic, fast-paced environment emphasizing ownership, initiative, and wearing multiple hats.
- **Passion for AI**: The team reads papers, tests new models, and ships updates weekly. Speed comes from staying current.
- **Notable Perks**: Small teams with high-impact projects; opportunity to work with frontier AI models; build tools you use yourself.

## Sources
1. [zencoder.ai](https://zencoder.ai/)
2. [zencoder.ai/about](https://zencoder.ai/about)
3. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/zencoderai)
4. [Greenhouse Jobs](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/zencoder)
5. [Tracxn](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/zencoder/__VsTmR6rVTyKvcPwPOA07u_EGH7m86nNRLYRWjz2_Nz8)

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