
Senior Platform Engineer | Bankrate
Red Ventures
2 months ago
Charlotte, NC, USA
Senior
H1B Sponsor
Base Salary
$130k - $205k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve shared platform patterns and standards for infrastructure and service operations.
- Build internal tooling and automation for easy adoption of platform patterns.
- Partner with application engineers to identify and resolve friction points.
- Design and maintain reusable CI/CD frameworks and workflows.
- Create and maintain infrastructure-as-code abstractions using tools like Terraform.
- Improve containerized application platforms using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Embed security and reliability best practices into platform systems.
- Participate in incident reviews to identify systemic improvements.
- Continuously enhance developer experience by reducing cognitive load.
- Mentor engineers and foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, cloud, or systems engineering roles.
- Strong experience with cloud-based engineering systems (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Experience supporting containerized workloads and service platforms (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Solid software engineering experience in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, JavaScript).
- Experience with service reliability concepts such as SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
- Experience implementing observability practices using tools like Datadog or Prometheus.
- Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle.
- A security-first mindset with experience embedding guardrails into systems.
- Strong communication skills to partner across teams.
Benefits
- Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision).
- Life Insurance.
- Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance.
- Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Holiday Pay.
- 401(k) with match.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program.
- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) with 20 days annually, increasing to 25 days after five years.
Tech Stack
AWSAzureDatadogDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptKubernetesPrometheusPythonTerraform
Categories
BackendDevOpsSecurity