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Senior Platform Engineer - Core Infrastructure

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about 10 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or San Jose, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$230k - $340k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters across AWS and bare-metal datacenters.
  • Build and maintain automation for cluster lifecycle management.
  • Own the reliability, performance, and security of Kubernetes workloads in production.
  • Implement observability, logging, and alerting for clusters and critical workloads.
  • Partner with product teams to design scalable, cloud-native services and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Set standards for resource management, networking, and RBAC across the platform.
  • Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-mortems for platform issues.
  • Mentor engineers and raise the bar for platform engineering across the organization.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in Platform, Infrastructure, or SRE roles with experience running Kubernetes in production.
  • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes internals and day-2 operations.
  • Strong skills with Helm, Kustomize, or similar tools, and GitOps-based delivery.
  • Proficient with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
  • Solid grounding in networking, service meshes, and container runtimes.
  • Hands-on experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Strong coding skills in Go or Python for automation and tooling.
  • Practical security experience with network policies and secrets management.

Benefits

  • Generous cash and equity compensation.
  • Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
  • Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles.
  • 401k Plan with 2% company match for USA employees.
  • Flexible paid time off plan.