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Senior Platform Engineer (DevX)
K2 Space · Los Angeles, CA, United States
Los Angeles, CA, United StatesExp: 8+ yrs165,000-200,000 USD/yearlyOnsite
Remuneration
165,000-200,000 USD/yearly
Location
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Senior Platform Engineer role is essential for developing the digital infrastructure that supports satellite design, manufacturing, and mission operations. Responsibilities include creating application patterns for Amazon EKS, promoting secure AI adoption, and ensuring system resilience while mentoring engineers and optimizing performance. This position requires a strong understanding of software development best practices and the ability to simplify complex manufacturing functionalities.
Benefits
Paid time offMedical/dental/vision coverageLife insurancePaid parental leave
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in developer tooling and deployment patterns
- Experience with PoC for new technology evaluation
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (Go, TypeScript, Python, C#)
- Deep knowledge of application design and deployment on Amazon EKS
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub or GitLab
- Competence in observability and SLOs
- Experience with Terraform or CDK and GitOps
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development processes
Responsibilities
- Build consistent application patterns to deploy to Amazon EKS
- Promote AI adoption in a secure model
- Establish AI guardrails and observability in software development
- Create platform functionalities for golden path deployment
- Lead developer experience roadmap
- Engineer resilient traffic paths and harden them
- Incorporate observability services for application monitoring
- Provide documentation and diagnostics to shorten support loops
- Optimize performance and cost metrics
- Steward code lifecycle and adoption
- Mentor engineers and partner with teams
- Build automated policies for code deployment practices
Skills
AWS CDKC#EKSGitHubGitLabGitLab CIGoPythonTerraformTypeScriptGitHub Actions
Relocation
No