Senior Platform Engineer

Role overview As a senior platform engineer, you’ll improve the infrastructure and developer workflows that help product teams deliver software reliably and independently. This hands-on individual contributor role combines building platform capabilities with technical leadership, operational investigation, and collaboration across engineering and security.

Responsibilities - Build self-service workflows for provisioning infrastructure, deploying services, and recovering from failures. - Improve delivery pipelines, release checks, progressive rollouts, and automated rollback. - Simplify cloud and container infrastructure, prioritizing reliability, security, cost, and maintainability. - Strengthen observability, alerting, service objectives, and capacity planning, using incidents and support trends to guide improvements. - Investigate performance and reliability across application code, databases, networking, containers, and cloud services. - Share technical decisions, coach teammates, and participate in platform on-call and incident response.

Requirements - At least five years in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or related infrastructure work, or equivalent depth. - Hands-on Kubernetes experience, including configuration, secrets, deployments, scaling, and production troubleshooting. - Experience operating AWS infrastructure for production services with meaningful traffic and availability needs. - Strong infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD skills, including Terraform and GitLab CI or comparable tools. - Ability to use metrics, logs, traces, and alerts to understand system behavior, and to debug automation across application and infrastructure boundaries. - Clear written communication and a record of leading technical work across teams without formal authority.

Nice to have - Experience with cloud security, least-privilege access, secrets management, SOC 2, or GDPR. - Familiarity with application performance tuning, PHP/Laravel, database operations, or infrastructure for AI agents.

Benefits and work setup - The listed US base salary range is $160,000–$200,000, with an expected annual performance bonus of 7.5% of base salary. Actual compensation may vary by experience, location, business needs, market conditions, and other factors. - Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage; flexible paid time off; holidays and sick leave; parental leave; 401(k); wellness, home workstation, and phone/internet benefits; and equity.