Staff Platform Engineer

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Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.
• 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, managing large-scale, high-availability, customer-facing distributed systems.
• Proven experience mentoring and guiding senior engineers.
• Mastery of public cloud providers, specifically AWS (EKS, DynamoDB, Aurora, Kinesis, etc.).
• Strong expertise in containerized microservices running on Kubernetes.
• Deep knowledge of automation and configuration management tools (Terraform, Ansible).
• Experience with advanced observability tools (DataDog, CloudWatch).
• Proven ability to drive cross-functional initiatives with various teams.
• Strong adherence to industry best practices around privacy and security.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a key architect and thought leader in cloud infrastructure.
• Mentor and coach senior engineers in advanced cloud operations practices.
• Oversee hosted Linux and Windows systems, networks, databases, and applications.
• Design and develop reusable components and operational strategies for cloud systems.
• Lead the establishment of infrastructure-as-code best practices.
• Drive operational cost savings through optimizations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align operational strategies.
• Evaluate existing tools and processes for operational efficiency.
• Develop documentation on best practices and configuration.
• Participate in on-call rotations and guide improvements to system reliability.
• Act as a liaison between cloud operations and business stakeholders.