Senior​/Platform Engineer

Senior/ Staff Platform Engineer Type:
Remote Coverage:
Pacific Hours (8:00 AM – 5:00 PM PST and On-call every 4-5 weeks)

Job Description:

We are looking for a Senior/Staff Platform Engineer to build, operate, and evolve large-scale production infrastructure. This is a hands-on platform and reliability engineering role for someone who has deep experience operating Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, troubleshooting complex production systems, and building the automation and tooling that keeps those systems reliable.

The work spans Kubernetes, Linux, cloud infrastructure, networking, observability, CI/CD, reliability, and production operations. You will write production code and automation in Go, Python, or Java, but this is not primarily a software development role. We are looking for an engineer who understands the systems underneath the applications and can independently diagnose and solve infrastructure problems across multiple layers.

This is a highly autonomous role. You will work directly with technical stakeholders, own ambiguous infrastructure initiatives from design through production, and be trusted to drive technical decisions and critical issues without requiring constant direction.

• Design, build, operate, and improve production Kubernetes platforms.

• Own platform-level concerns including cluster architecture, networking, workload isolation, resource management, security, upgrades, scaling, and reliability.

• Troubleshoot Kubernetes beyond the application layer, including networking/CNI, scheduling, node behaviour, resource constraints, controllers, and cluster-level failures.

• Operate and improve large-scale, highly available infrastructure across cloud, hybrid, virtualised, and/or bare-metal environments.

• Diagnose complex issues spanning Kubernetes, containers, Linux, networking, and underlying infrastructure.

• Optimise platform infrastructure for reliability, performance, scalability, and operational efficiency.

• Write, maintain, and improve production tooling and automation using Go, Python, or Java.

• Build software and automation that improves platform operations, reliability, deployment, troubleshooting, and developer experience.

• Read, debug, and contribute to existing production codebases.

• Develop internal services, APIs, integrations, and operational tooling where needed.

• Automate repetitive operational processes and reduce manual intervention across the platform.

• Apply sound software engineering practices, including testing, code review, maintainability, and documentation.

• Own the reliability and operational health of critical production infrastructure.

• Lead or contribute significantly to incident response for complex platform and infrastructure issues.

• Investigate root causes and implement durable remediation rather than temporary fixes.

• Define and improve SLOs, SLIs, alerting, and operational processes.

• Troubleshoot systems using logs, metrics, traces, profiling tools, and system-level diagnostics.

• Drive improvements in availability, performance, capacity, resilience, and operational readiness.

• Contribute to disaster recovery planning, testing, and continuous improvement.

• Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and related automation technologies.

• Create reusable infrastructure patterns and improve automation as the platform evolves.

• Build and improve CI/CD and deployment workflows supporting large-scale engineering environments.

• Balance delivery speed with reliability, security, scalability, and operational requirements.

• Work across infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, deployment automation,…