Staff Engineer, DevOps

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Staff Platform Engineer Job Description

• Design, build, ship, and operate agentic AI systems, including autonomous, tool‑using agents that observe platform state, reason over dealer context, and act through production APIs.
• Serve as a hands‑on platform engineer responsible for the health, security, reliability, and maintainability of a multi‑tenant automotive SaaS platform.
• Continuously identify, triage, and remediate security vulnerabilities, including managing dependencies, applying timely patches and upgrades, and enforcing secure‑by‑default practices.
• Upgrade and modernize frameworks, runtimes, and platform components to keep the stack current, stable, and safe to ship.
• Lead and drive adoption of an agentic development harness to accelerate delivery and improve developer productivity across the organization.
• Own and improve production monitoring and observability, including defining and maintaining SLOs, error budgets, and telemetry to ensure reliable operations.
• Establish, document, and enforce engineering standards, coding guidelines, and best practices across multiple engineering teams.
• Define and manage CI/CD pipelines and release management processes, including quality and security gates, rollback strategies, and progressive delivery mechanisms.
• Champion safe releases by designing checks and balances that gate production, ensuring changes are tested, observable, and reversible.
• Lead SRE practices such as on‑call operations, incident response, and post‑incident reviews to minimize customer impact and improve system resilience.
• Design and maintain instrumentation and guardrails so that production failures degrade gracefully and fail safe rather than fail loud.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to modernize legacy systems, including evolving a monolith into microservices and microfront ends using domain‑driven design and strangler patterns.
• Plan and execute monolith‑to‑microservice extractions, including dual‑write validation, traffic splitting, canary and per‑tenant rollouts, and shared database decomposition.
• Contribute to both backend services and frontend applications, owning performance, monitoring, and reliability across the stack.
• Review architecture and code across multiple teams, identifying technical risks early and guiding engineers toward robust, maintainable solutions.
• Integrate with third‑party APIs at scale, designing resilient patterns for REST, SOAP, webhooks, idempotency, retries, and backoff strategies.
• Design and operate data models using both relational and No
  
  SQL databases, ensuring appropriate schema design and access patterns.
• Write clear, actionable design documents, ADRs, and runbooks that enable other engineers to implement solutions without extensive meetings.
• Promote reusable abstractions and platform capabilities while avoiding unnecessary complexity and over‑engineering.
• Operate security tooling such as dependency and vulnerability scanners, SAST/DAST, and container image scanning in production environments.
• Run observability and on‑call tooling in production, ensuring alerts are meaningful, actionable, and aligned with SLOs.
• Support and guide modernization of a legacy monolith while helping redesign components into microfront ends and next‑generation services.
• Collaborate closely with senior engineering leadership, providing visibility into platform health, risks, and modernization progress.
• Act as a platform leader who notices systemic problems early, proposes pragmatic solutions, and drives cross‑team initiatives to completion.
• Promote a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and learning across the engineering organization.

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 2 years operating as…