Senior Platform Engineer
Build and operate a self-service internal development platform that helps engineering teams deploy and run production services reliably. The role requires strong backend programming, production Kubernetes operations, cloud infrastructure, observability, networking, and distributed-systems experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Investigate gaps and limitations in engineering development workflows and understand infrastructure and platform requirements.
- Design self-service platform services and developer tooling focused on reliability, usability, and appropriate abstraction from cloud infrastructure.
- Write and review automation, configuration management, and application code.
- Author and review functional specifications and scoping documents for large platform projects and services.
- Own and operate the internal development platform.
- Collaborate with distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones.
- Contribute to tooling and services, resolve incidents, and respond to user requests.
- Investigate, scope, execute, and document medium-to-large platform projects.
- Drive platform adoption and become a subject matter expert in a platform component.
Requirements
- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in cloud providers; AWS strongly preferred.
- Strong backend programming experience; fluency in Go strongly preferred, with deep experience in another compiled or strongly typed backend language acceptable.
- Experience working with AI coding agents and building high-quality context for high-quality outputs.
- Experience designing and implementing medium-to-large software projects, driving design reviews, and mentoring less-senior engineers.
- Strong experience operating production Kubernetes clusters.
- Practical experience defining and operating against SLI/SLOs for owned services.
- Strong observability experience across metrics, logging, and traces.
- Strong Linux and TCP/IP networking skills.
- Familiarity with OAuth and OIDC authentication protocols.
- Familiarity with web services and/or Kubernetes controller development.
- Strong experience using CI/CD workflows to deploy production services.
- Pragmatic, detail-oriented, self-motivated, and collaborative.
Compensation and Benefits
- MongoDB describes a supportive and enriching culture with employee affinity groups, fertility assistance, and generous parental leave.
- Workplace accommodations are available throughout the application and interview process.
Skills
Go, AWS, Kubernetes, Crossplane, Terraform, Helm, Drone, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Linux, TCP/IP, OAuth, OIDC, CI/CD
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