Staff Platform Engineer

Role overview

A Staff Platform Engineer role focused on building and evolving the cloud and delivery foundations behind an autonomous cybersecurity assessment platform. The position blends hands-on technical leadership with cross-team influence, shaping platform direction, developer workflows, and operational standards across a distributed engineering organization.

Responsibilities

- Lead the design and evolution of AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, and shared platform services that underpin a production cybersecurity product. - Define architecture for infrastructure automation, regional capabilities, and ephemeral environments used by engineering teams. - Build reusable platform capabilities, self-service workflows, and release-safety practices using infrastructure-as-code and declarative approaches. - Improve platform reliability, observability, security, performance, and operability while participating in on-call rotation and post-incident reviews. - Drive complex initiatives across multiple teams, balancing reliability, security, cost, developer experience, and delivery speed. - Mentor engineers, raise the technical bar, and improve documentation, runbooks, interfaces, and self-service paths.

Requirements

- 8+ years in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, DevOps, or software engineering with substantial production-platform ownership. - Deep experience designing and operating cloud platforms, preferably on AWS. - Strong Kubernetes background including production operations, networking, reliability, and troubleshooting. - Infrastructure-as-code and automation expertise with Terraform, Crossplane, or comparable tools. - Hands-on experience operating CI/CD and delivery infrastructure. - Solid understanding of IAM, secrets management, networking, ingress, and least-privilege principles. - Proficiency in Go and Python for platform services, tooling, or automation. - Demonstrated success leading complex initiatives across multiple teams and excellent communication and mentoring skills.

Nice to have

- Multi-region or multi-environment SaaS platform experience. - Internal developer platform, declarative API, or Platform-as-a-Service background. - Familiarity with GitLab CI/CD, self-hosted runners, OpenTelemetry, or Datadog. - Ephemeral-environment, automated-provisioning, or platform-lifecycle experience. - Experience in security-sensitive, regulated, or cybersecurity environments, including startup or high-growth settings.

Benefits and work setup

- Base salary range of $199,750-$270,000 annually, with the exact figure based on location, qualifications, and experience. - Equity package in the form of stock options for all full-time roles. - Health, vision, and dental insurance for the employee and their family. - Flexible vacation policy and generous parental leave. - Remote and hybrid work models, with occasional travel for company onsites and team collaboration.