Cloud Platform Engineer

Make Your Mark:
The Staff Cloud Platform Engineer is a senior technical leader at the heart of Black Line’s platform strategy. In this role you will drive the design, automation, and operational excellence of the service backbone that powers Black Line SaaS products and influence architecture across the organization.

• Serve as technical lead and subject‑matter expert for engineering platform service architecture, driving design and delivery of scalable, resilient, cloud‑native infrastructure.
• Architect and develop Kubernetes‑native systems, including serverless architecture, and deploy stateless services using Knative sequences.
• Design and operate event‑driven systems with platforms such as Kafka and Pub/Sub, ensuring efficient, eventually‑consistent services.
• Champion a security‑first approach across all platform design, covering network topology, firewall policy, container hardening, logging, monitoring, availability, and resiliency.
• Establish observability through custom sensors, dashboards, and alerting to ensure health, performance, and SLO compliance.
• Own and evolve the team’s CI/CD strategy, balancing operational efficiency with toolchain security.
• Collaborate with partner engineering teams, product, and IT on architecture decisions, IaC principles, and platform standards.
• Mentor engineers, define and uphold documentation, operational runbooks, and engineering standards.
• Provide technical leadership for major cross‑functional initiatives and serve as an escalation point for complex issues.

• 7‑10+ years of experience in engineering, platform, or SRE roles.
• Expert, deep proficiency in at least one of Rust, C#, Python, Go, Java, or equivalent for platform engineering and SaaS development.
• Strong experience with container‑targeted application development (Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes, or App Engine).
• Hands‑on experience with GCP (preferred) and/or AWS in production at scale, including Big Query, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, VPC networking, and IAM.
• Experience working with stateful databases and key‑value data stores such as PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, and Val Key.
• Demonstrated ability to drive architectural decisions, lead platform‑level initiatives, and influence cross‑functional teams.
• Strong written and oral communication skills and a proven ability to build productive relationships across engineering, product, and IT.
• Hands‑on experience with AI tools such as Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, or Cursor to enhance development productivity and code quality.
• Experience designing and operating event‑driven platforms (Kafka, Airflow, or equivalent).
• Constant drive for operational improvement, identifying bottlenecks, implementing change, and raising quality standards.

• Proficiency with Kubernetes, Git Ops workflows via ArgoCD, configuration management via Kustomize, and security tooling.
• Familiarity with frontend frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.
• Experience with Google Cloud managed services, including compute products.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or Cloud Formation; experience with Ansible or comparable configuration management tooling.
• Experience with container security scanning, policy enforcement, and supply‑chain tooling.

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