Standard Template Labs is a stealth-mode, AI-native startup reimagining the future of IT Service and Configuration Management. Backed by leading investors, we're leveraging AI, graph-based architecture, and exceptional design to transform how enterprises manage and engage with their technology ecosystems.
What we’re building
Most internal platforms are an afterthought — a pile of Terraform, half-working CI, and tribal knowledge glued together with Slack threads.
We’re not doing that.
We’re building a graph-first, AI-native system to model how enterprise infrastructure and work actually happens — and a platform that makes it trivial for engineers to build on top of it.
This isn’t “DevOps” in the traditional sense.
This is building the foundation that everything else runs on.
The role
You’ll be responsible for designing and building the platform that our engineers (and eventually our customers) rely on every day.
That means:
Defining how services are deployed, discovered, and connected
Creating self-service infrastructure that actually works
Making it easy to spin up, test, and ship complex systems
Ensuring everything scales cleanly as we go from 0 → 1 → N
You’re not here to maintain infrastructure.
You’re here to turn infrastructure into a product.
What you’ll work on
Designing and building our internal developer platform from scratch
Creating tooling and abstractions that remove complexity for engineers
Defining service architecture, deployment patterns, and environment strategy
Building CI/CD systems that are fast, reliable, and invisible when working correctly
Owning observability (logs, metrics, tracing) across the system
Driving infrastructure as code across everything we build
Partnering closely with backend engineers to shape how systems are built
What we’re looking for
Experience building and operating production systems at scale
Strong background in backend or infrastructure engineering
Deep familiarity with cloud environments (AWS/GCP), containers, and distributed systems
Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)
Strong opinions on how developer platforms should work
Ability to take ambiguous problems and turn them into clean systems
Bonus points
Experience building internal developer platforms (IDPs)
Experience with Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems
Exposure to data platforms or graph-based systems
Experience in early-stage or 0→1 environments
Why this role matters
Most companies treat platform engineering as support.
We don’t.
This team will define:
How every system is built
How every engineer works
How fast we can ship
If you get this right, everything else gets easier.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws. The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at is: $160,000—$250,000 USD.