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JellyfishJellyfishUnited States

Senior Platform Engineer

Build and automate platform infrastructure using Python, Terraform, and AWS to reduce developer toil and enhance observability in a scaling startup environment. Advocate for best practices and incident learning with strong automation mindset.

165k – 235k/yr
RemoteDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Engineering the Platform: Work with product teams to build infrastructural groundwork for new apps, automate repetitive tasks, and harden fragile systems.
  • Killing Toil: Identify friction points in dev lifecycle and build Terraform modules or Python tooling to eliminate them.
  • Architectural Advocacy: Champion sound software design and "paved road" patterns to enable fast development without breakage.
  • Observability over Monitoring: Implement tools like Honeycomb and Grafana for deep system introspection.
  • High-Agency Incident Response: Evolve incident remediation with blameless retrospectives and systemic improvements.

Requirements

  • Proficient in Python and Linux, writing clean, testable code for infrastructure management.
  • Strong expertise in Terraform for infrastructure as code, including state and module structure at scale.
  • Passion for automation over manual repetition.
  • Experience exploring new AWS services or observability tools.
  • Lead by influence, building consensus and focusing on business-aligned solutions.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience in rapidly scaling startups.
  • Strong views on developer experience (DevEx).
  • Managed complex data environments like Databricks or large RDS clusters.

Skills

PythonTerraformLinuxAWSHoneycombGrafanaDatabricksRds

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