Sr. Platform Engineer
Based in the United StatesFull-TimeSenior
SalaryCompetitive salary with equity participation
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSPythonJavaKubernetesTypeScriptGoCI/CDTerraform
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, or Software Engineering roles focused on building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong expertise with Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
- Experience with developer portals or service catalogs (Backstage or similar) and templated service provisioning.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Go, Python, Java, or TypeScript.
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and multi-repository software systems.
- Deep understanding of observability tooling and practices (metrics, logging, tracing, SLOs).
- Familiarity with service mesh technologies such as Istio, including production rollout experience.
- Experience building or enabling AI-assisted software delivery systems or agent-ready infrastructure is highly valued.
- Strong communication skills with a product mindset focused on developer experience and adoption.
- Ability to lead cross-team initiatives, migrations, and platform standardization efforts.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve the internal developer platform, including service provisioning, CI/CD systems, Kubernetes infrastructure, and cloud-native tooling.
- Drive adoption of scalable 'golden paths' that standardize how teams build, deploy, and operate services across the organization.
- Maintain and extend service provisioning systems, including Backstage-based service catalogs and templates.
- Develop and scale AI-native platform capabilities such as agent-ready workflows, service registries, and MCP-backed APIs.
- Lead service mesh adoption (e.g., Istio), including traffic management, security policies, and rollout strategies.
- Define and enforce platform guardrails using policy-as-code, CI checks, security baselines, and developer scorecards.
- Own and operate core infrastructure components including Kubernetes clusters, Terraform-based IaC, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Partner with product engineering teams to design self-service workflows and improve developer experience.
- Lead large-scale migrations, framework upgrades, and deprecations across distributed systems.
- Instrument and track platform and developer productivity metrics to guide roadmap decisions.
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