Staff Platform Engineer - Platform Integrations

POSITION SUMMARY This is a senior individual contributor and the primary technical authority on the integrations that connect MeridianLink’s products to one another and to the external systems our clients depend on. This role sits within Platform Services and owns integration architecture, API design, and the patterns and standards that engineering teams in adjacent product lines build against. The right person combines deep technical expertise in integration and API systems with the maturity to operate across teams and drive architectural decisions. KEY COMPETENCIES Staff engineers operate across multiple teams or an entire product line. They set technical direction, make architecture and technology decisions that others build against, and raise the engineering floor across the teams they touch. Staff engineers at MeridianLink are active, daily users of AI-assisted development tools, and go further by building the workflows, tooling, and patterns that make those tools more effective for the teams around them. TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP & ARCHITECTURE - Makes critical architecture and design decisions that span multiple teams or an entire product area - Evaluates technology choices with a clear view of trade-offs at scale, not just for the immediate problem - Drives technical standards and patterns that other engineers can follow without being supervised - Identifies systemic problems before they become incidents - Reasons fluently across the fundamentals of distributed systems: how systems handle load, how they store large datasets, and how they stay correct under failure - Treats every architecture decision as a trade-off between speed, cost, and correctness, and makes that trade-off explicit when guiding teams; sizes systems with back-of-the-envelope estimation and decides microservices versus monolith on evidence rather than default CROSS-TEAM EXECUTION - Provides day-to-day technical direction for one or more scrum teams without holding a management title - Steps into ambiguous, high-stakes technical problems across teams and drives them to resolution, without being asked - Holds a high bar in code and design review across team boundaries INTEGRATION ARCHITECTURE & API DESIGN - Defines integration patterns, API contracts, and data exchange standards used across product lines - Evaluates build-vs-buy decisions for integration infrastructure, including API gateways, event streaming, and messaging platforms - Designs resilient, observable integration systems that degrade gracefully and recover predictably - Drives adoption of shared integration infrastructure and establishes standards for how teams onboard to it ECOSYSTEM & PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE - Develops deep working knowledge of MeridianLink’s product ecosystem, including the data flows, dependencies, and integration points - Anticipates how product-level changes cascade across integration surfaces and flags risk before it ships - Builds relationships with product and engineering stakeholders across adjacent teams to stay ahead of integration needs EXPECTED DUTIES ARCHITECTURAL LEADERSHIP - Own the reference architecture for the Platform Integrations layer, covering API standards, event-driven patterns, shared integration service design, and third-party integration frameworks - Lead technical due diligence and design reviews for new integration requirements, particularly those that cross product lines or involve external partners - Define and document API contracts, integration patterns, and onboarding standards that enable product teams to build on shared integration infrastructure with confidence - Drive decisions on integration tooling, frameworks, and platforms in partnership with the Platform Foundation and Capabilities teams HANDS-ON DELIVERY - Contribute directly to implementation of integration services, APIs, and shared libraries used across the engineering organization - Participate in code review and design review with a high bar, raising quality across the team - Build…