Staff Platform Engineer

Job summary

The Staff Engineer leads developer productivity systems that support development, builds, and delivery across SaaS, mobile, and embedded/IoT products. The role sets platform direction, automates bootstrapping and release pipelines, improves local development and testing, and strengthens the performance and reliability of secure distributed services. The environment includes Kubernetes, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Tekton, Helm, AWS, and services written in Go, Ruby on Rails, and Python.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of engineering experience.
• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or a related field.
• Experience building CI/CD infrastructure with multiple pipeline solutions.
• Experience improving release processes and streamlining microservice creation.
• Experience improving developer environments and experience in large organizations.
• Expertise in Git flow and versioning strategies.
• Experience enabling reproducible builds and advocating engineering best practices.
• Experience with Go, Ruby on Rails, Python, or similar languages.
• Working knowledge of AWS services and technologies.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management.
• Experience with large-scale distributed release management.
• Experience with container orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Set direction and initiatives for the team and platform.
• Build automated bootstrapping and delivery pipelines.
• Advance self-service engineering tools and practices.
• Improve local development consistency and experience.
• Build self-healing infrastructure for automated testing.
• Improve system performance and reliability.
• Lead technical sessions and demos to encourage adoption and collaboration.
• Coach and mentor engineers and collaborate on designs.

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