# Platform Engineer

**Company:** [hud](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/hud)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Skills:** AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, EKS, Docker, Helm, EC2, Codebuild, Ecr, S3, IAM, CI/CD, Observability, Backend Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-06-30

> Platform Engineer owning reliability, scale, performance, and developer experience of core infrastructure and backend systems at HUD. Requires strong production AWS/Kubernetes experience plus backend engineering judgment on services, queues, databases, and APIs.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own production uptime, latency, provisioning speed, infrastructure cost, and incident response for core platform services
- Build and maintain AWS infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, Docker, EC2, CodeBuild, ECR, S3, IAM, networking, and secrets management
- Design and improve backend and platform systems for scale, including capacity planning, autoscaling, queueing, backpressure, cleanup jobs, retries, and rollback paths
- Define and improve dashboards, alerts, logs, traces, SLOs, runbooks, and on-call workflows so failures are detected, debugged, and resolved quickly
- Build reliable CI/CD, release automation, environment management, and deployment workflows that improve developer productivity and reduce production risk
- Write clean, maintainable code where needed to automate systems, improve backend services, and create internal tooling

## Requirements
- Owned production cloud infrastructure for a high-availability, user-facing platform, with responsibility for uptime, performance, deployment safety, and cost
- Deep experience with AWS infrastructure and containerized systems
- Built or operated CI/CD, environment management, release automation, observability, alerting, and incident response systems
- Strong backend engineering judgment and can reason about service architecture, APIs, databases, async systems, queues, scaling limits, and production failure modes
- Can write clean, maintainable code and apply strong software engineering judgment across product architecture, infrastructure, backend systems, and developer workflows

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience operating infrastructure for data-heavy, ML/AI, workflow, marketplace, developer-tools, or enterprise platforms
- Experience designing systems for bursty workloads, long-running jobs, sandboxed execution, distributed workers, or high-concurrency services
- Experience reducing cloud spend through better architecture, autoscaling, workload placement, caching, cleanup systems, or observability
- Experience building internal platforms or tools that make engineers faster without hiding too much complexity

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