Senior Platform Engineer

Job summary

The Senior Platform Engineer is tasked with ensuring the availability, reliability, and performance of production systems while promoting SRE principles. Key responsibilities include managing AWS cloud infrastructure, designing secure systems, and providing developer tooling to enhance workflow efficiency and support best practices.

Qualifications

• Strong background and 5+ years of experience in building and operating production systems at scale
• Deep experience with cloud infrastructure in AWS
• Strong understanding of networking concepts (VPCs, routing, load balancing, DNS)
• Proficiency in container orchestration and hands-on experience designing, operating, and scaling Kubernetes clusters in production environments
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform
• Proficiency with configuration management and packaging tools such as Helm
• Knowledge of modern deployment practices, including GitOps workflows and tools such as Argo CD and CI/CD systems like GitLab CI
• Experience building and operating observability systems
• Familiarity with incident management processes, using tools like PagerDuty
• Experience designing and building shared infrastructure or internal platforms used by other engineering teams

Responsibilities

• Ensure production systems are available, scalable, performant and operate as expected
• Advocate for SRE principles and engineering excellence
• Ensure infrastructure and tooling meet security standards
• Drive security initiatives and best practices
• Design and implement disaster recovery and resilience strategies
• Provide visibility into system health and performance across teams
• Enable effective debugging, alerting, and incident response
• Provide infrastructure and self-serve tooling to create an efficient developer workflow

Skills

Relocation