Platform Engineer

About the role

We’re looking for a platform engineer who can own the reliability, scale, performance, and developer experience of HUD’s core infrastructure and backend systems.

This is not a pure infrastructure role. The right person has strong production infra experience, but also thinks like a backend engineer: they can reason about service architecture, queues, databases, APIs, deployment safety, performance bottlenecks, and how product requirements translate into resilient systems. You’ll work across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and backend services to make HUD faster, more reliable, cheaper to run, and easier for engineers to build on.

• Own production uptime, latency, provisioning speed, infrastructure cost, and incident response for core platform services
• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, Docker, EC2, Code Build, ECR, S3, IAM, networking, and secrets management
• Design and improve backend and platform systems for scale, including capacity planning, autoscaling, queueing, back pressure, cleanup jobs, retries, and rollback paths
• Define and improve dashboards, alerts, logs, traces, SLOs, runbooks, and on‑call workflows so failures are detected, debugged, and resolved quickly
• Build reliable CI/CD, release automation, environment management, and deployment workflows that improve developer productivity and reduce production risk
• Write clean, maintainable code where needed to automate systems, improve backend services, and create internal tooling

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have owned production cloud infrastructure for a high‑availability, user‑facing platform, with responsibility for uptime, performance, deployment safety, and cost
• Have deep experience with AWS infrastructure and containerized systems; experience with tools like Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, EC2, Code Build, ECR, S3, IAM, load balancers, networking, and secrets management is strongly preferred
• Have built or operated CI/CD, environment management, release automation, observability, alerting, and incident response systems
• Have strong backend engineering judgment and can reason about service architecture, APIs, databases, async systems, queues, scaling limits, and production failure modes
• Can write clean, maintainable code and apply strong software engineering judgment across product architecture, infrastructure, backend systems, and developer workflows

Strong candidates may also have:

• Experience operating infrastructure for data‑heavy, ML/AI, workflow, marketplace, developer‑tools, or enterprise platforms
• Experience designing systems for bursty workloads, long‑running jobs, sandboxed execution, distributed workers, or high‑concurrency services
• Experience reducing cloud spend through better architecture, autoscaling, workload placement, caching, cleanup systems, or observability
• Experience building internal platforms or tools that make engineers faster without hiding too much complexity

We prioritize technical aptitude, ownership, and learning potential over years of experience.

• Competitive compensation based on experience and location
• 100% covered top‑of‑the‑line medical, dental, and vision from Blue Shield of CA
• Lunch and dinner when you’re in the office
• Company‑wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Year's Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays
• Other perks including an Equinox membership, 401k, and commuter benefits
• Unlimited access to tokens for ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.