Platform Engineering Lead

Role Overview

As the Platform Engineering Lead at Coder, you will lead architectural and technical decisions related to platform engineering and internal Dev Ops. You will be a founding member of a new team dedicated to platform engineering, unblocking, uplifting, and focusing on the problems that matter to deliver a cutting‑edge developer platform loved by customers.

• Drive architecture decisions related to infrastructure and deployments.
• Support internal infrastructure for engineering.
• Translate product vision into clear technical roadmaps and drive execution end‑to‑end.
• Train and uplift engineering and field teams on infrastructure‑related work.
• Maintain a high bar for code quality, security, and performance; instill best practices.

• 7+ years in infrastructure and platform engineering with at least 3 years leading teams.
• Proven record of shipping software to large enterprise customers.
• Experience contributing to or leading open source projects.

• Linux
• Kubernetes & containers
• At least one major public cloud (e.g. AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• IP networking & HTTP fundamentals
• Infrastructure as Code

• Backend:
  Go, Postgres, GCP, Kubernetes, gRPC
• Frontend:
  Typescript, React, Vite
• IDE Extensions:
  Typescript, Kotlin
• Observability:
  Prometheus, Grafana
• CI/CD:
  Git Hub Actions
• General:
  Git Hub, Slack, Discord, Notion

Coder is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.