Staff Platform Engineer - Core Platform Engineering

Job summary

The Staff Platform Engineer will design, operate, and continuously improve a secure, scalable Kubernetes platform across cloud and on-prem environments, enabling product teams to ship faster and more reliably. Key responsibilities include developing reusable infrastructure patterns with Terraform for AWS, strengthening observability through metrics and logs, and automating platform lifecycle management to reduce manual effort and risk.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure roles operating production-critical services at scale
• Deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, including cluster architecture, upgrades, control plane operations, networking, ingress, storage, security, and lifecycle management
• Strong understanding of AWS fundamentals, including networking, IAM, compute, storage, and security patterns
• Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure as code, including reusable modules, abstractions, and scalable provisioning patterns
• Strong practical observability experience, including SLO and SLI design, instrumentation, dashboarding, alert strategy, and production performance analysis
• Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Python or Go for automation, tooling, and internal platform capabilities
• Experience providing technical leadership through platform standards, architectural guidance, and hands-on enablement
• Ability to operate effectively in complex environments and make pragmatic technical decisions across reliability, security, speed, and maintainability

Responsibilities

• Design, operate, and continuously improve a secure, scalable, and resilient Kubernetes platform across cloud and on-prem environments
• Build and maintain standardized platform capabilities such as ingress, service mesh, secrets management, and lifecycle automation
• Develop reusable infrastructure patterns and Terraform modules for AWS and on-prem platforms to enable fast, auditable provisioning
• Strengthen observability through clear metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and actionable alerting that support effective operational decisions
• Reduce platform friction for product teams by providing architectural guidance, platform standards, and hands-on enablement
• Automate platform lifecycle management including bootstrap, upgrades, scaling, and operational maintenance to reduce manual effort and risk
• Drive technical direction and sound architectural choices across platform engineering with pragmatic trade-offs between reliability, security, speed, and maintainability
• Help raise engineering maturity by mentoring others and shaping shared engineering standards across teams

Skills

Relocation