Staff Platform Engineer

Job summary

As Staff Platform Engineer, you will define the architecture of Cortex's infrastructure and platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience designing, operating, and scaling high-performance production systems
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code
• Strong database proficiency with experience in performance and migrations at scale
• Architectural judgment at the system and cross-team level
• Working proficiency in at least one application language
• Strong security mindset regarding IaC and appsec risks
• Fluent use of AI in engineering
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities

Responsibilities

• Define architecture and best practices for the platform and infrastructure layer
• Own the deploy pipeline and lead the move to a GitOps model for fast, safe releases
• Design and harden multi-tenant isolation and blast-radius protection
• Lead database stabilization and platform work for performance and availability
• Build infrastructure foundations for compliance-heavy and government deployments
• Set standards for observability, on-call, and operational readiness
• Collaborate with leadership to translate platform capabilities into offerings

Skills

Degrees

Relocation