Staff Infrastructure Platform Engineer

Role overview

Build the shared infrastructure that helps engineering teams deliver utility software safely and efficiently. As the first individual contributor on a new platform team, you will own cross-team infrastructure and reliability problems, shape technical direction with platform leadership, and create internal services that product teams can use on their own.

Responsibilities

- Design and operate cloud infrastructure and reusable platform building blocks. - Improve deployment pipelines and release practices to make delivery safer and more predictable. - Establish observability, reliability, and incident response practices for systems supporting critical utility operations. - Strengthen security foundations, including access controls, network boundaries, and secrets handling. - Build self-service tools and workflows that improve developer experience across product and data teams. - Work across engineering groups to identify recurring platform needs and solve them centrally.

Requirements

- Strong experience designing and operating cloud systems, including networking, compute, storage, security, and cost management. - Practical infrastructure-as-code experience; Terraform is preferred. - Experience with containers, orchestration, and deployment patterns for production services. - Ability to design CI/CD pipelines and progressive release approaches such as canary or blue-green deployments. - Knowledge of observability practices spanning metrics, tracing, logs, and alerting. - Sound security fundamentals and comfort owning work independently across teams.

Nice to have

- Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure. - Familiarity with high-volume data systems, multi-tenant SaaS identity, or security compliance work. - Background in resilience testing, critical infrastructure, or the energy sector. - Contributions to open source, technical writing, or conference presentations. - Effective use of AI-assisted software development tools.