Senior/Staff Infrastructure & Platform Engineer
Leads the architecture, development, and operation of cloud, Kubernetes, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure, while building developer platforms and CI/CD automation. Requires at least six years of infrastructure or related engineering experience, deep Kubernetes expertise, strong programming skills, and technical leadership.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure across cloud, Kubernetes, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
- Drive complex infrastructure and engineering productivity initiatives from problem definition through architecture, implementation, and production.
- Build internal developer platforms, tools, and services that simplify development, deployment, and operations.
- Design and optimize CI/CD platforms and pipelines.
- Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, testing, monitoring, and operational workflows.
- Improve developer experience and reduce engineering toil.
- Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code, automation, and platform capabilities.
- Build systems with reliability, observability, resilience, security, and disaster recovery capabilities.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure and platform issues, participate in incident response and root-cause analysis, and resolve systemic problems.
- Evaluate technologies, make technical recommendations, and establish infrastructure standards and best practices.
- Lead technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, software engineering, SRE, DevOps, or related fields.
- Strong programming and software engineering fundamentals, with experience developing production-quality tools and services.
- Deep production Kubernetes experience, including troubleshooting complex environments.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and/or on-premises infrastructure.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform or Ansible.
- Experience designing and improving CI/CD platforms and deployment automation.
- Strong understanding of Linux, networking, distributed systems, and infrastructure architecture.
- Experience with server provisioning, configuration management, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
- Hands-on experience with Ansible, Chef, or similar automation technologies.
- Strong programming skills in Go, Python, Rust, or C++.
- Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and reliability engineering practices.
- Ability to lead complex technical initiatives and deliver scalable, maintainable solutions.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Nice to Have
- Experience building internal developer platforms or developer productivity tooling.
- Experience operating Kubernetes in on-premises, private cloud, or bare-metal environments.
- Experience with Kubernetes operators, controllers, or Kubernetes-native tooling.
- Experience defining engineering productivity or platform reliability metrics.
- Kubernetes CNI/CSI and networking/storage expertise.
- Experience with Cassandra, etcd, Ceph, Kafka, or Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
- Jenkins architecture or administration experience.
- Experience with VPN, SSO, infrastructure security, or network infrastructure.
- Hardware/server provisioning and data center operations experience.
- Enterprise customer deployment or customer-facing infrastructure experience.
Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary: $155,000–$230,000 per year.
- Additional compensation may include bonus, equity, or commissions.
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, retirement savings, wellness program, disability coverage, holidays, unlimited PTO, volunteer time off, and an internet stipend.
Skills
Kubernetes, Linux, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, AWS, Azure, GCP, Go, Python, Rust, C++, Networking, Distributed Systems, Jenkins
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