Senior Platform Engineer

As we scale toward 600 product engineers, the infrastructure layer that powers everything - Kubernetes clusters, VPCs, compute pools, storage, shared services - becomes mission-critical. Right now, that infrastructure is the single point of failure for every developer-facing capability the platform team builds. You'll be the senior IC responsible for designing, deploying and operating that substrate. This is more than infrastructure management; it's production-quality software engineering applied to infrastructure. You'll build abstractions that let service teams specify their infrastructure requirements at a high level, then turn those into reliable, secure, performant deployments. This role sits at the intersection of deep cloud-native expertise and solid software engineering discipline.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, deployment and operation of platform-layer infrastructure: VPCs, compute pools, storage, Kubernetes clusters, and the networking that connects them - translating configuration data into inputs for IaC modules provided by Cloud Operations; Own the monitoring and operation of managed pub/sub messaging systems (e.g. Kafka) that service teams depend on; Design and evolve abstractions that allow service teams to express infrastructure requirements at a high level, translating those into production-grade deployments with security and high availability baked in by default; Operate platform infrastructure at 99.9% uptime; own the change management process for infrastructure changes and drive a > 95% change success rate; build a strong post-incident learning loop; Work with Cloud Operations to consume their IaC modules and feed back operational lessons and enhancement requests; maintain a clean module-consumer relationship that protects both functions; Anchor the technical standards for the Shared Services and Infrastructure team: code review quality bar, controller patterns, GitOps idioms, IaC consumption patterns and operational runbooks; Mentor junior engineers and set the bar for infrastructure software engineering

Requirements

Software or infrastructure engineering experience, including operating production Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure; Strong software-engineering fundamentals and hands-on experience with Java; Deep Kubernetes expertise and comfort with Linux command line; Strong networking and cloud architecture fluency: VPCs, subnets, load balancing, security, service mesh interaction; Hands-on experience with IaC tools (Terraform) and GitOps tooling (Argo CD, Flux or equivalent); Solid experience participating in production incident response; comfortable being on-call for critical infrastructure; Working knowledge of observability fundamentals (metrics, logs, traces) and experience consuming platform observability backends; Experience mentoring junior engineers; you can set and maintain a technical quality bar; A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent professional experience

Nice to have

Hands-on experience with GCP (primary), AWS or Azure (preferred); Experience designing and operating shared services infrastructure at scale (preferred); Familiarity with pub/sub messaging systems like Kafka and their operational characteristics (preferred); Experience with service mesh patterns and their infrastructure implications (preferred)

Benefits

Responsible PTO policy; Flexible Working; up to 12 fully covered therapy/coaching sessions per year with additional dependent coverage; monthly gym reimbursement policy; Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) as part of total compensation with 3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval; free Coursera subscription; PXA courses; 26 weeks fully paid parental leave for primary caregiver and 13 weeks fully paid leave for secondary caregiver; technology stipend for home office setup; monthly allowance to cover internet expenses