Staff Platform Engineer
EMEA, European (CET) business hoursFull-TimeStaff
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- AWSGCPKubernetesAzureClickhouseGoGrafanaPrometheusCI/CDTerraform
Requirements
- Proven experience architecting and operating scalable, highly available, and secure cloud-native platforms in production
- Strong proficiency in Go
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes
- Deep expertise in a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi)
- Strong understanding of system architecture
- Strong understanding of distributed systems
- Strong understanding of the challenges of running high-performance API gateways
- Familiarity with GraphQL Federation (significant plus)
- Experience building or managing modern observability stacks (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, ClickHouse)
- Self-starter attitude and a leader’s mindset
- Comfortable with ambiguity, can identify and solve ill-defined problems
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Responsibilities
- Enable engineering teams to ship features for WunderGraph Cosmo fast, reliably, and with confidence through a world-class Internal Developer Platform (IDP).
- Take full ownership of our core platform infrastructure and services—from architecture to operation.
- Drive the architectural vision for our platform, making key decisions on technologies like Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and our observability stack.
- Bring deep platform expertise to the table, leveling up the entire team through mentorship, architectural guidance, and by championing best practices.
- Architect, build, and operate the core cloud-native infrastructure for WunderGraph Cosmo and Hub, primarily using Go and Kubernetes.
- Own and evolve our observability stack (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, ClickHouse) and the infrastructure supporting our AI-driven features.
- Building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines to improve build times, automate quality and security gates, and create a seamless path to production for our engineers.
- Championing and implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices using tools like Terraform.
- Embedding security best practices into the platform by designing and implementing network policies, RBAC, and automated checks to meet enterprise and SOC 2 compliance standards.
- Mentoring other engineers, providing insightful code and design reviews, and documenting platform features and architectural decisions.
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