Platform Engineer - Compute Capacity
Platform engineer responsible for forecasting and automating compute capacity across regions, including reservations, fleet reconciliation, observability, and cost optimization. Requires 5+ years in infrastructure, SRE, platform, or capacity engineering plus production software and AWS EC2 experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Help maintain the compute capacity plan across regions and instance families.
- Model headroom targets and cost tradeoffs for buffer policy.
- Build automation for reservation acquisition, top-ups, fleet reconciliation, and drift detection.
- Extend infrastructure as code for capacity-related provisioning.
- Develop metrics for saturation, reservation coverage, idle buffer, forecast error, and provisioning latency.
- Build and tune alerts for headroom, quota, and reservation issues.
- Support intake of customer commitments, launches, migrations, and new regions into capacity planning.
- Contribute to right-sizing, instance-family migration, autoscaling, and workload-consolidation initiatives.
- Reduce compute cost per database through right-sizing, placement, and commitment coverage.
- Participate in capacity incident response and post-incident follow-through.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, SRE, platform engineering, or capacity engineering, ideally at SaaS or cloud infrastructure scale.
- Production software engineering experience owning and operating services.
- Experience with modern programming languages such as TypeScript, Python, and Go.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Pulumi or Terraform.
- Experience building or maintaining observability, metrics, and trusted alerting.
- Working knowledge of AWS EC2 instance families and generations, purchase options, capacity reservations, and quota mechanics.
- Financial fluency regarding reservation economics, coverage, utilization, and cost tradeoffs.
- Clear communication across engineering and finance stakeholders.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or similar observability tools.
Compensation and Benefits
- Fully remote work with global hiring.
- WeWork membership or coworking allowance.
- Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP).
- Tech allowance for equipment and work setup.
- Health insurance coverage for employees and dependents.
- Annual company off-sites.
- Flexible, asynchronous work.
- Annual professional development allowance.
Skills
TypeScript, Python, Go, Pulumi, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, Amazon Cloudwatch, Aws Ec2, Infrastructure As Code, Capacity Planning, Observability, Autoscaling
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