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Staff Platform Engineer
For*** · Berkeley, CA, United States
Berkeley, CA, United StatesExp: 7-10 yrs147,959-184,966 USD/yearlyOnsite
Remuneration
$147,959 - $184,966; stock options and benefits
Location
Berkeley, CA, United States
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa
Job summary
Own the operational design and scaling of an internal developer platform, migrating production infrastructure from legacy systems and extending platform capabilities to new teams and toolchains. The role covers Day-2 operations, infrastructure and configuration auditing, monitoring and SLOs, incident response, security and compliance, and cloud cost and capacity planning. The platform uses AWS, Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, and GitOps.
Benefits
Stock optionsMedical, dental, and vision premiums fully covered for full-time employees80% of dependent healthcare premiums coveredAt least 12 weeks of paid parental leave, up to 20 weeks for birthing parentsVacation policy
Qualifications
- 7–10 years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
- Experience migrating production systems from legacy infrastructure to a new platform, including coexistence, cutover, and rollback.
- Hands-on depth in AWS, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code, including resolving complex infrastructure problems.
- Experience operating and scaling CI/CD and GitOps delivery systems.
- Experience leading complex incident response and turning failures into structural improvements.
- Experience directing technical work, mentoring engineers, and driving design reviews.
- Ability to evaluate AI-generated infrastructure code and operational output.
Responsibilities
- Lead legacy infrastructure migrations through decommissioning, including sequencing, cutover, rollback, and validation.
- Minimize disruption to dependent teams and develop repeatable migration patterns.
- Extend the platform to new teams and toolchains and document integration patterns.
- Design Day-2 operations for capacity, upgrades, and lifecycle at scale.
- Audit configuration drift, dependency currency, and secret and certificate lifecycles.
- Maintain and review infrastructure-as-code, pipeline, and configuration standards.
- Design monitoring and alerting and define SLOs with internal customers.
- Lead incident response and drive postmortems toward structural fixes.
- Build automation and agent workflows with guardrails and human review.
- Develop runbooks, tooling, design documents, decision records, and standards.
- Implement security and compliance controls and automate audit evidence.
- Forecast cloud cost and capacity.
- Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and partner with IT, Security, Data, and operations teams.
Skills
AWSKubernetes
Industry
Energy technologyEnergy storageManufacturing
Relocation
Yes