SRE – Platform Engineer

Role Overview

• Broad domain architect for the internal developer platform and all cloud engineering
• Drive architecture for tooling or in-house software
• Mentor other platform engineers to drive strong engineering practices
• Enablement of platform engineering technical capabilities in our internal client teams in software engineering
• Peer with the senior architects and engineers in software engineering
• Architecture and engineering focused on GCP environment
• Architect and oversee GKE cluster operations and workload management
• Provide feedback to others and participate in peer reviews / pair programming
• Drive the broad adoption of Test Driven Development through designing, development, and debugging unit and integration tests for new and existing infrastructure and code
• Continuous curiosity of existing implementations and new technologies and sharing with the team
• Practice continuous improvement across all job areas and personally / professionally
• Clearly communicate with platform engineering teams and other stakeholders and provide technical direction while doing so
• Stay current with platform changes and third-party libraries.
• Proactively investigate better solutions for current solutions
• An understanding of Open Telemetry and true observability and the difference between it and monitoring and logging
• Grow the engineering culture towards a high-performing team
• Practice the arts of self-service, least privilege and security by default in all solutions
• Define and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets
• Lead incident response, including on-call rotations, root cause analysis, and post-mortem reviews
• Implement and optimize monitoring, alerting, and observability systems for system reliability
• Collaborate on capacity planning and performance optimization to ensure high availability
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field or 8+ years experience as a software engineer
• Proficiency in kubernetes. Optional: CKA, CKAD
• Extensive experience in Unix / Linux
• Polyglot and proficiency in multiple languages (ideally: Golang, NodeJS, Python, HCL and more)
• Knowledge of multi-cloud environment, including GCP, AWS, and Azure (familiar with at least two of these environments)
• Experienced in using git in trunk-based development models
• Experience in use of feature flagging in infrastructure and runtime (k8s)
• Experience with backend database technology is a plus, including supporting and performance enhancements
• Advanced experience working with and creating public cloud resources in Terraform or other infrastructure as code tools
• Experience participating in a 24/7 on-call schedule without supervision and successfully resolving issues without escalation
• Experience using Open Telemetry for observability as well as other monitoring tools such as datadog, new relic and others
• Good understanding of networking and routing principles
• Experience in dockerizing applications and orchestrating them with kubernetes
• Familiarity with security configuration for web/api services (SSL, Access control)
• Experience with JIRA or other work tracking systems.
• Ability to resolve tickets according to priority order and collaborating with the Technical Product Manager to adjust priorities
• Excellent documentation details, using Confluence or similar tooling – this could include support notes, runbooks, ADRs, etc
• Familiarity with creating an end to end CI/CD pipeline using various tools with artifact storage
• Familiarity with use of MacOS as a desktop and predominantly CLI interfaces
• Experience in a “product mindset” by understanding stakeholder needs, priorities and business value
• Experience with security compliance frameworks including FedRAMP, NIST, and SOC2
• Proven experience in SRE practices, including incident management and reliability engineering
• Familiarity with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Honeycomb for observability
• Experience with chaos engineering, load testing, or reliability testing frameworks.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Google Cloud Platform
• Grafana
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• MacOS
• Node.js
• Prometheus
• Python
• Terraform
• Unix
• Go

Benefits

• Employees are expected to provide a high level of security to any personal or private information accessed as part of their work, whether at a DroneUp facility or remotely.
• Participate in security training.
• Remain sensitive to individual rights to personal privacy.
• Comply with company policies.