# Staff Platform Engineer - Infra + DevOps

**Company:** [Honor](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/honor)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $194k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Infrastructure As Code, Jenkins, Argo CD, CI/CD, CloudWatch, Datadog, Serverless
**Posted:** 2026-06-04

> Seasoned Platform Engineer designing and maintaining scalable distributed systems and infrastructure on AWS. Builds foundational patterns, IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and observability for Python services using Kubernetes and serverless. Requires 6+ years of platform engineering experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and implement foundational patterns and libraries for Python applications, across a range of technologies from API services to event processing
- Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to ensure reproducible and scalable environment setups
- Design and implement infrastructure for applications hosted on AWS, supporting event-driven systems, containerized services on Kubernetes, and serverless functions
- Develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, ArgoCD
- Automate the lifecycle management of code from development through production, including code promotion and configuration management
- Instrument observability through tools such as CloudWatch and DataDog to monitor and optimize application performance across multiple environments
- Scale infrastructure to meet increasing demand while managing cost effectively
- Define, instrument and measure standards for quality, security, scalability, and availability with a focus on delivering business value
- Deliver turn-key developer experience for local development
- Mentor and develop talent

## Requirements
- At least 6 years of professional experience in a platform engineering team within a product-centric company
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable distributed systems & infrastructure
- Deep practical knowledge of cloud platforms, advanced software design patterns & architecture, operations and automation, and containerization technologies like Kubernetes
- Experience working with AWS, event-driven systems, containerized services on Kubernetes, and serverless functions
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, ArgoCD
- Experience with observability tools such as CloudWatch and DataDog
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strategic thinker with a product-first approach and customer obsession

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience working with an RPC architecture
- Experience at a technology startup and familiar with the challenges of evolving platform maturity
- First hand experience navigating multiple distributed architecture patterns

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