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WHOOPWHOOPBoston, MA

Senior Platform Engineer - Kubernetes

Senior Platform Engineer responsible for designing, operating, and scaling Kubernetes clusters on AWS. Focuses on CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and developer productivity across WHOOP's technology stacks.

150k – 215k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and operate WHOOP’s Kubernetes clusters running on AWS infrastructure
  • Drive architectural decisions to improve scalability, resiliency, performance, and security across the build and deployment platform
  • Build systems and tooling that increase deployment safety and accelerate release velocity to Kubernetes
  • Advance CI/CD capabilities to support frequent, reliable production deployments
  • Lead developer productivity improvements through tooling, automation, and platform integrations
  • Partner with application, security, and data teams to embed secure-by-default infrastructure practices
  • Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems to continuously improve platform reliability
  • Mentor and provide technical leadership to engineers on the Application Infrastructure team
  • Help define and execute the long-term roadmap for infrastructure and Kubernetes management at WHOOP

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform, Site Reliability, Cloud Engineering, or Backend Software Engineering roles
  • Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture and core components
  • Strong knowledge of container networking concepts, including overlay networking, service meshes, and network policies
  • Experience with multi-cluster Kubernetes environments and inter-cluster communication patterns
  • Hands-on experience operating cloud infrastructure, preferably in AWS (e.g., IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, CloudTrail, Organizations)
  • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. Terraform)
  • Experience developing backend or infrastructure-adjacent services using Java, C#, or Python
  • Proven ability to evaluate system performance, identify bottlenecks, and use data to drive improvements
  • Experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders and prioritizing work for maximum business impact

Skills

KubernetesAWSTerraformJavaPythonC#CI/CDService MeshVpcIAM

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