# Senior Platform Engineer

**Company:** [Solace](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/solace)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** GCP, AWS, Azure, Linux, Terraform, GitOps, Kubernetes, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Networking, DNS, Tls, CI/CD, Distributed Systems, Cloud Infrastructure
**Posted:** 2026-08-10

> Build and operate scalable cloud infrastructure and application platforms, enabling frequent deployments, resilient systems, observability, and self-healing capabilities. The role requires strong troubleshooting, Linux and cloud experience, networking knowledge, and expertise in one or more platform engineering focus areas.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build cloud infrastructure and the application platform powering healthcare products.
- Assess risk and impact for changes to live environments.
- Participate in an on-call rotation.
- Troubleshoot complex interactions across technology, governance, and people, including under time pressure.
- Design and build autonomous, self-healing processes.
- Support product and data engineers in areas of platform expertise while developing additional expertise.
- Communicate with stakeholders and internal platform customers.

## Requirements
- Experience working in a startup environment.
- Experience building scalable infrastructure for web applications or data workloads.
- Deep troubleshooting skills, including identifying root causes across architectural and abstraction layers and implementing solutions.
- Fluency with the command line and comfort working with Linux.
- Strong communication skills.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure on GCP, AWS, or Azure; GCP is preferred.
- Familiarity with GitOps technologies such as Terraform.
- Understanding of VPCs, subnets, routes, peering, DNS, load balancers, L4/L7 routing, NAT gateways, CDNs, and TLS.
- Experience with observability tools such as Datadog and OpenTelemetry for infrastructure, application, and database performance monitoring.
- Ability to help instrument application code, build dashboards, and collaborate with application engineers.

## Focus Areas
Experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Site reliability, including improving performance, reliability, and cost across the stack.
- Kubernetes, including scalable, resilient, and secure workload operations and troubleshooting.
- Polyglot development and the ability to read code and understand runtime operational characteristics.
- DevOps, including building and maintaining CI/CD systems.
- Developer product experience, including low-friction tools and workflows for product and data engineers.
- Data infrastructure, including databases, warehouses, connectors, replicators, access controls, and data pipelines.
- Distributed systems, including multi-region systems and scalability, reliability, and resilience tradeoffs.
- Security and cloud infrastructure experience in highly regulated industries such as healthcare.

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