Cloud Platform Engineer

As a Cloud Platform Engineer on the Runway team, you'll help design, build, and maintain the infrastructure and developer tooling that powers our engineering organization. You'll advance our Kubernetes-based platform, mature our GitOps practices, and expand infrastructure as code adoption across the business. This hands-on role brings together infrastructure, automation, and developer experience, helping application teams deploy and operate their services.

Responsibilities

Operate and improve production Kubernetes clusters across cloud environments, managing upgrades, scaling, and reliability throughout the cluster lifecycle; Own and extend Argo CD-based GitOps workflows, maintaining ApplicationSets, managing sync policies, and enforcing deployment standards across environments; Write, review, and maintain reusable Terraform modules, with clear practices for state management and drift detection; Monitor platform health, respond to incidents, conduct post-mortems, and improve availability, performance, and observability; Collaborate with application teams to onboard services, and create documentation, runbooks, and self-service tooling that improves developer productivity; Implement role-based access control, network policies, and secrets management to meet infrastructure security and compliance requirements; Integrate platform capabilities with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to support end-to-end delivery workflows

Requirements

Experience operating Kubernetes in production and working with at least one major cloud provider: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure; Experience with Argo CD or comparable GitOps tooling, such as Flux; Proficiency in Terraform for cloud infrastructure provisioning, including remote state, workspaces, and module design; Ability to write scripts and automation in Python, Bash, or Go; Familiarity with Helm for Kubernetes package management; Understanding of networking fundamentals, including the Domain Name System (DNS), load balancing, ingress, and service mesh concepts; Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to document systems and collaborate across teams

Nice to have

Experience operating managed, multi-cluster, or multi-region Kubernetes; Experience with service meshes; Experience with policy as code; Experience with observability; Experience with Kubernetes-native infrastructure as code; Open source or platform tooling contributions; Relevant certifications

Benefits

Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being; Flexible Paid Time Off; Team Member Resource Groups; Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan; Growth and Development Fund; Parental Leave