Staff Engineer - Platform

Grow Therapy is on a mission to serve as the trusted partner for therapists and patients accessing high-quality care. They are seeking a Staff Engineer to join their Platform team to help build an internal developer ecosystem that enhances productivity and supports their goal of making mental healthcare more accessible.

Responsibilities:

• Help deliver a next-generation, Kubernetes-based internal developer platform that forms a strong foundation with resilient and scalable platform architecture and automated cluster and infrastructure management
• Provide new capabilities such as progressive delivery (Canary, Blue/Green), multi-stage deployment pipelines, ephemeral dev/test environments, and declarative application infrastructure management
• Reduce friction through self-service application lifecycle workflows and golden-path application infrastructure abstractions

Requirements:

• 10+ years of professional experience: You have a track record of leading large-scale technical initiatives and delivering on outcomes
• Kubernetes operations: You have deep experience operating clusters (e.g., EKS), automating their lifecycles, and maintaining production SLOs for cluster services
• Self-service platforms: You have designed Kubernetes-based abstractions that have empowered development teams to manage their own services and infrastructure
• Cloud infrastructure: You have experience automating cloud infrastructure on providers such as AWS using tools such as Terraform or Crossplane
• Technical Breadth: You have experience with multiple backend languages (preferably Python, Go, and/or Typescript), solid foundations in networking concepts, and feel at home in a Linux terminal environment
• Impact-oriented: You prioritize outcomes over output and think deeply about the business and user value behind your work. As a staff-level engineer, you understand how to drive impact through influence and leadership as much as through writing code
• Self-starting: While you're happy to take direction, you are intrinsically motivated and thrive when given the opportunity to lead initiatives
• Adaptable: Your strong opinions are loosely held; you're open to new ideas and avenues of exploration; you are able to roll with the flow when business opportunities arise and priorities shift
• Team player: You collaborate well, communicate with empathy, and enjoy mentoring and learning from others
• You have production experience with FluxCD, ArgoCD, Kargo, AWS Controller for Kubernetes (ACK), and/or Crossplane
• You've designed and developed CI/CD pipelines meant to serve multiple teams/applications
• You've contributed to open source Kubernetes projects
• You were once a product developer before moving into platform development
• You use modern AI tools (e.g., Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to boost your productivity and focus on higher-leverage problems