Lead Platform Engineer

Role overview

Build and operate the platform infrastructure and developer capabilities that help engineering teams deliver software reliably. The role spans cloud architecture, Kubernetes, automation, security, and performance, with an emphasis on enabling teams to provision and manage their own delivery pipelines while meeting operational and governance needs.

Responsibilities

- Design and maintain scalable, reliable platform infrastructure for development and production environments. - Build and improve CI/CD automation and support DevOps and GitOps practices. - Enable teams to manage software delivery pipelines, source control, and artifact repositories. - Operate containerized workloads and cloud services, with attention to availability, security, and service expectations. - Investigate incidents, outages, and performance bottlenecks; communicate findings and follow through on root causes. - Tune platform and application performance, improve autoscaling, and manage cloud costs.

Requirements

- Deep hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform services, including Kubernetes Engine, compute, storage, networking, and serverless; familiarity with AWS or Azure. - Advanced Terraform skills and experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible or Chef. - Experience designing CI/CD and GitOps workflows, infrastructure testing, and deployment automation. - Strong knowledge of observability, monitoring, and alerting tools, and the ability to troubleshoot complex platform issues. - Experience securing cloud infrastructure through access controls, encryption, network policies, and ongoing security monitoring. - Background with Kubernetes and containers, data infrastructure, and scripting or programming for automation and developer tools.

Nice to have

Experience with infrastructure test frameworks such as Terratest, Kitchen, or InSpec; monitoring platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, or ELK; and languages such as Java, Python, Go, or Bash. Strong written and spoken English, clear technical communication, and effective collaboration across development, operations, and security teams are also sought.

Benefits and work setup

The role is marked remote. The listed annual salary range is $155,000–$249,000 USD, with the final amount depending on factors such as experience, location, responsibilities, skills, and training. The listing references a benefits package but does not specify its contents.