Senior Platform Engineer

Note:

This role is on W2 Only

Description:

The Senior Platform Engineer leads the design and delivery of platforms and drives strategic improvements to developer experience across the organization. They own complex automation initiatives, architect self-service capabilities around infrastructure and application delivery, and serve as a primary escalation point and technical mentor for assistant and staff level engineers. Leads and champions Dev Ops practices and culture across the organization, driving automation strategy for infrastructure provisioning and application delivery.

Creates processes and conversations to drive improvements related to deployment frequency, failure change rate, mean time to recover (MTTR), and lead time, and sets measurable targets for improvement. Partners with architects and writes well-crafted code to provision infrastructure and deploy applications ablishes patterns, standards, and reusable components that other engineers follow. Documents trade-offs to different approaches and document architectural decisions.

Serves as a strategic partner to engineering teams on developer experience. Proactively identifies systemic pain points and process bottlenecks, leads initiatives to resolve them, and builds lasting trust across teams through consistent delivery and deep technical empathy. Independently scopes and leads complicated work streams, defining requirements and acceptance criteria in collaboration with stakeholders. Operates effectively in ambiguous environments and guides the team through uncertainty and change.

Evaluates, selects, and owns the toolchain for developer productivity—particularly CI/CD pipelines—ensuring the software development lifecycle is fast, safe, and reliable. Drives adoption of new tooling and practices across the organization.