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PropelPropelBrooklyn, NY

Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer owns cloud services, Kubernetes clusters, and developer tooling on AWS to enable engineering teams. Requires 5+ years DevOps/SRE experience, strong Kubernetes/Terraform/AWS skills, and on-call participation.

170k – 240k/yr
Remote5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Own fundamental cloud services and tooling: manage cloud networks, security policies, and low-level cloud services. Engineering team provisions infrastructure using Terraform.
  • Own application platform: administer Kubernetes clusters, explore tools for security and reliability.
  • Own developer experience: assist with best practices, administer CI/CD and internal tools.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Systems Engineering
  • Proficient in Python, Go, or similar high-level language
  • Strong understanding of networking, containers, security, and scalability
  • Strong Kubernetes fundamentals and Helm experience
  • Strong infrastructure as code skills (Terraform)
  • Broad AWS experience
  • Observability platforms (Datadog)
  • CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)
  • On-call rotation experience

Nice-to-Haves

  • Kubernetes tools: Vault, Sealed Secrets, Consul, Prometheus
  • Data platforms: Snowflake, data infrastructure
  • Cybersecurity/regulatory: HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001

Compensation

  • Salary: $170,000 - $240,000
  • Equity and benefits
  • 20 days PTO
  • 4% 401K match
  • $10k Carrot Fertility
  • Excellent medical, dental, vision

Skills

KubernetesTerraformAWSPythonGoDatadogGitHub ActionsHelmNetworkingContainers

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