# Associate Platform Engineer

**Company:** [Solace](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/solace)
**Location:** Redwood City, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 0+ years
**Skills:** Linux, Command Line, GCP, AWS, Opentofu, Kubernetes, Cloud Infrastructure, Internal Developer Platforms, Systems Monitoring, Incident Response
**Posted:** 2026-08-25

> Associate Platform Engineer role for a 2027 college graduate supporting internal developer tooling, system monitoring, outage troubleshooting, and reliability improvements. The role offers hands-on learning in Linux, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and systems analysis while working in person from the Redwood City office.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Support product and data engineers with tooling and the internal developer platform.
- Monitor system health and triage signals.
- Participate in troubleshooting and applying fixes for outages with the platform engineering team.
- Participate in postmortems, systems analysis, and architectural reviews.
- Ask questions and contribute to improving platform reliability.

## Requirements
- Curiosity about technology, how systems work, and how they interact with people.
- Strong drive to investigate problems deeply and form an accurate understanding of system behavior.
- Willingness to learn from mistakes and failures.
- Ability to think creatively when obvious approaches are unsuitable.
- Must be based in the United States.

## What You’ll Learn
- Command-line proficiency and Linux systems administration.
- Methods for gathering information from broken systems, forming hypotheses, testing them, and implementing fixes.
- Frameworks for understanding and evaluating systems and architecture, including identifying patterns and anti-patterns.
- Infrastructure development with GCP, AWS, OpenTofu, and Kubernetes.

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