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Senior Platform Engineer
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Role overview Lead the design and operation of platform infrastructure that helps engineering teams deliver software quickly and reliably. The work spans cloud-native services, automation, observability, and developer tooling, with a focus on uptime, scale, and using AI responsibly to improve platform operations.
Responsibilities - Build and operate platform services, infrastructure-as-code modules, CI/CD pipelines, and self-service deployment tools. - Improve reliability and performance by implementing monitoring, alerting, and observability, and defining service level indicators and objectives. - Set technical standards for scalable, resilient cloud systems, and contribute hands-on engineering expertise. - Partner with data, reliability, security, and software engineering teams to support product growth. - Design for high throughput, low latency, and availability; modernize existing infrastructure and reduce operational toil. - Identify ways to improve developer productivity and platform capabilities, including through AI-assisted engineering.
Requirements - At least five years in platform, infrastructure, data engineering, SRE, or DevOps, with senior individual-contributor experience. - Track record building and operating large distributed systems in production. - Practical experience applying AI to infrastructure, with suitable governance and safeguards. - Deep Infrastructure as Code experience, such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi. - Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, cloud-native deployment, and CI/CD systems; experience creating self-service pipelines. - Proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar language for internal tools and platform services. - Experience operating observability systems and a strong understanding of cloud networking, security, and systems architecture. - Clear communication and documentation skills.
Benefits and work setup The role is listed as remote. Compensation includes a stated base salary range of $160,000–$190,000 USD, with bonus and equity eligibility. Benefits for eligible full-time employees include medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) with company match, paid time off, 12 weeks of paid family bonding leave, a health savings account, disability coverage, and supplemental insurance.