# Senior Platform Software Engineer, Transport

**Company:** [Fivetran](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fivetran)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $153k – $184k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Python, Rust, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Argo Workflows
**Posted:** 2026-06-30

> Senior Platform Software Engineer building and operating multi-cell platform infrastructure for dbt Cloud. Design cloud networking, automate migrations and services in Go/Python, own distributed systems with on-call. Requires 5+ years backend/platform experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and major cloud providers.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Architect and build platform infrastructure, including service routing, cloud networking, and the control plane for managing account lifecycles.
- Develop and automate tooling to migrate customer accounts from legacy environments to the new multi-cell architecture at scale.
- Write robust, high-quality backend services and infrastructure code, primarily in Go and Python, with opportunities to work with Rust.
- Tackle cloud networking challenges including VPC management, load balancing, DNS, PrivateLink, and service mesh configurations.
- Design and implement automation using Argo Workflows, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
- Collaborate with product engineering, security, and customer support teams to unblock features, define technical direction, and mentor engineers.
- Own and troubleshoot distributed systems, participate in on-call rotation.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in platform, infrastructure, or backend roles supporting SaaS applications.
- Experience working asynchronously in a fully-remote, distributed team.
- Proficient in Go or Python with experience building large-scale distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in modern cloud infrastructure: major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform.
- Familiarity with cloud networking (load balancing, DNS, VPCs, proxies, service mesh) or strong desire to learn.
- Strong ownership, systematic problem-solving, and cross-team collaboration skills.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field preferred (equivalent experience considered).

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with cell-based or multi-tenant architectures and large-scale account migrations.
- Track record building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure.
- Hands-on with nginx, Istio, Envoy, AWS Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, Kubernetes CNI/service mesh.
- Multi-cloud strategies and cost optimization experience.
- Advanced proficiency in Go, Python, and interest in Rust.
- Industry certifications (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional) or open-source contributions.

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