Senior Platform Engineer

Role Overview

• Design and evolve platform architecture: Help shape the architecture of our platform by evaluating trade-offs, improving system design, and partnering with teams to build scalable, reliable infrastructure that supports long-term growth.
• Build software that powers the platform: Develop tooling, services, and automation that improve developer productivity, reliability, and observability across the system.
• Own infrastructure as code and automation: Expand and harden our Terraform coverage, ensuring critical resources are versioned, auditable, and safely provisioned across environments.
• Design scalable, reliable system interactions: Contribute to the design of system interactions and data flows, making thoughtful architectural decisions that balance scalability, reliability, and performance as the platform evolves.
• Improve reliability and operational signal: Build and evolve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and testing pipelines that surface meaningful signal rather than noise.
• Secure the platform and toolchain: Partner on securing CI/CD pipelines, access controls, networking, and data flows while supporting compliance efforts as we grow.
• Reduce toil and improve leverage: Identify repetitive or high-friction work and eliminate it through automation, better abstractions, or new tooling, including leveraging AI where it meaningfully helps.
• Partner with engineering teams: Operate as a partner to feature teams, helping unblock delivery, improve systems, and ensure platform decisions reflect real-world needs.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or software engineering roles
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent practical experience will be considered.
• Strong software engineering foundation with solid coding skills; Python preferred.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native systems (GCP preferred)
• Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub, GitHub Actions)
• Strong understanding of containers, Docker, and cloud networking fundamentals, as well as orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
• Experience with databases and data infrastructure
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pub/Sub, Kinesis, or similar)
• Comfortable discussing architectural trade-offs and system design decisions clearly and thoughtfully.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Docker
• Google Cloud Platform
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Python
• Terraform

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including equity
• Full health, dental, and vision coverage
• Retirement savings plan through 401(k)
• Flexible time off
• Opportunities for company-wide connection and events