Platform Engineer Lead

Job Overview

Lead Platform Engineer – Senior individual contributor (PE5) on the Banzai SDLC / Dev Ops team. Responsible for building, optimizing, and modernizing tool chains used by engineering teams daily.

• Design and deliver enterprise‑grade developer tooling, treating SDLC as a product with developers as primary consumers.
• Evolve the core SDLC toolchain end‑to‑end: CI/CD pipeline orchestration, code‑quality and static‑analysis, artifact and package management, and build‑automation frameworks.
• Architect quality gates, artifact promotion strategies, dependency governance, and pipeline patterns that are fast, reliable, and self‑service.
• Define and deliver standardized SDLC capabilities—including automation, security integration, observability, and AI‑assisted development—to reduce cognitive load while preserving flexibility.
• Lead hands‑on adoption and enterprise enablement of AI‑assisted software development (Claude Code, Git Hub Copilot, etc.), building enterprise controls, guardrails, and usage patterns.
• Partner across Platform Engineering, Architecture, Security, and application teams to ensure solutions are intuitive, scalable, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Communicate solutions to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders and translate platform strategy into concrete developer outcomes.
• Continuously experiment, evaluate emerging tools, and incorporate learnings into scalable platform capabilities.

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or Dev Ops.
• Strong foundation as a developer who builds and ships software, with experience building CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and developer tool chains.
• Hands‑on experience with tools such as Harness.io, Sonar Qube, and package/artifact management solutions (Artifactory, Nexus, etc.).
• Experience building developer tooling and SDLC platforms that serve many teams as long‑lived platform products.
• Practitioner of AI‑assisted development, using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Git Hub Copilot daily and defining enterprise‑ready patterns (access, data handling, cost visibility, auditing, logging).
• Strong knowledge of modern software delivery practices: CI/CD, Git Ops, cloud‑native platforms, container orchestration (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Proficiency in Type Script, Python, Java, or Go; ability to write production code.
• Experience with CI/CD orchestration (best: Harness.io, Git Hub Actions). Familiarity with code‑quality and static‑analysis platforms (Sonar Qube, Sonar Cloud). Knowledge of observability concepts (metrics, logs, traces, Open Telemetry).
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

Competitive salary in the range $153,842–$246,147, annual performance bonus, profitability bonus, and 15% retirement contribution from Capital. Additional benefits include health coverage, flexible work options, paid time‑off, professional development resources, matching charitable contributions, and more.

We are an equal‑opportunity employer and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including gender and gender identity), pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, AIDS/HIV status, political activities or affiliations, military or veteran status, domestic‑violence victim status, assault or stalking, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.