# Platform Engineer II

**Company:** [Bestow](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/bestow)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $115k – $130k/yr
**Skills:** GCP, Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Kubernetes, TypeScript, Python, Go, Bash, CI/CD, Docker, Git, GitHub, Postgres, Datadog
**Posted:** 2026-08-11

> The Platform Engineer II automates cloud infrastructure, builds developer tooling, and improves the reliability and manageability of software platforms. The role requires cloud, infrastructure-as-code, scripting, CI/CD, containerization, and systems administration experience, along with participation in on-call operations.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Cloud Infrastructure Projects
- Treat cloud infrastructure as code; route modifications through code review and execute them via CI tools.
- Automate cloud infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
- Administer the software platform, including Kubernetes, Pulumi Cloud, ArgoCD, CircleCI, and PostgreSQL.
- Contribute to projects using TypeScript, Python, Go, or Bash.
- Evaluate, design, and implement solutions for continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps productivity.

### Software Reliability and Developer Experience
- Collaborate with product engineers to identify observability and configurability gaps and make code-level improvements.
- Create tooling that improves developer experience and enables faster, more effective delivery.
- Manage incident-response runbooks, measure operational performance, and make gradual improvements.
- Participate in a primary weekly on-call rotation, respond to platform incidents, and perform blameless root-cause analysis.

## Requirements
- Proficiency with GCP or other cloud platforms.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
- Experience using AI-powered coding assistants or agents, such as Claude Code, to enhance productivity and streamline development workflows.
- Familiarity with TypeScript, Go, or similar languages.
- Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or similar languages.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI.
- Understanding of containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with version control tools such as Git and GitHub.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Familiarity with observability platforms such as New Relic or Datadog.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Salary and equity based on role.
- Flexible paid time off and parental leave programs.
- 100% paid-premium option for medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Lifestyle stipend supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being.
- Flexible work-from-home policy and remote work options.
- Optional access to a Dallas office setting.

## Similar roles

- [Systems Adminstrator](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/340b8fe1-edd2-4efc-868c-5128d1930883) - Black Canyon Consulting - Bethesda, MD - $115k – $150k/yr
- [Platform Engineer (DataOps)](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/93b0d593-0409-4ee0-b5a4-a2ab9f930829) - Black Canyon Consulting - Bethesda, MD - $115k – $150k/yr
- [Platform DevEx Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/5fb8729e-d2bd-4aa4-9051-1c62e4a6c089) - Black Canyon Consulting - Bethesda, MD - $115k – $150k/yr
- [Platform DevEx Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/5c187d52-91e6-4f21-a63b-92653443676e) - Black Canyon Consulting - Bethesda, MD - $115k – $150k/yr
- [Atlassian Cloud Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/69a74b8a-7a64-4989-b754-0e3f2b9e50dd) - Crusoe - San Francisco, CA - $115k – $135k/yr

**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/867b3afd-1415-4d60-86ca-26742bdd629b
**Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/867b3afd-1415-4d60-86ca-26742bdd629b