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Staff Platform Engineer
Shi*** · San Diego, CA, United States
San Diego, CA, United StatesExp: 8+ yrs123,000-185,000 USD/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
123,000-185,000 USD/yearly
Location
San Diego, CA, United States
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa
Job summary
The Staff Platform Engineer is tasked with designing and implementing internal technology platforms that enhance engineering, autonomy, and enterprise operations. This role involves building scalable infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments, developing infrastructure-as-code frameworks, and improving CI/CD pipelines to boost software delivery and engineering productivity.
Benefits
BonusBenefitsEquity
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or site reliability engineering roles supporting large-scale systems.
- Deep hands-on experience designing, building and operating cloud or hybrid infrastructure platforms, including networking, identity, compute, and storage systems.
- Strong expertise with Infrastructure as Code and automation frameworks (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, or similar).
- Experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines, developer platform tooling, and automated deployment workflows.
- Strong systems engineering background across Linux-based environments, distributed systems, and infrastructure automation using scripting or programming languages (Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell, etc.).
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence technical direction across multiple engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve scalable internal platform infrastructure supporting engineering workloads across public cloud, private cloud, and on-prem environments.
- Design and implement platform capabilities that enable standardized, secure, and repeatable application deployment of applications and services.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code frameworks and reusable platform modules to accelerate engineering productivity.
- Establish and evolve 'paved path' platform patterns that simplify secure software delivery for engineering teams.
- Build automation and developer tooling that improves software delivery and engineering productivity.
- Contribute to and improve CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, and developer platform tooling.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to reduce operational friction and improve system observability, resilience, and reliability.
- Design, implement, and operate highly available infrastructure platforms supporting mission-critical engineering systems.
- Implement scalable platform solutions across cloud and on-prem environments including compute, networking, identity, and storage.
Skills
AnsibleAWSAzureBashGoKubernetesLinuxPowerShellPythonTerraform
Degrees
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceEngineeringRelated technical field
Relocation
No