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K2 Space

Senior Platform Engineer

K2 Space
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5 days ago
Los Angeles, CA, USASenior / Staff+

Base Salary

$165k - $215k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and evolve self-service connectivity abstractions.
  • Own service identity and trust with broad coverage.
  • Engineer resilient traffic paths and harden them via chaos tests.
  • Establish observability standards for end-to-end request paths.
  • Provide approachable documentation and diagnostics.
  • Optimize performance and cost metrics.
  • Apply threat and abuse modeling to connectivity surfaces.
  • Steward lifecycle and adoption of network resources.
  • Mentor engineers and partner with DevX teams.
  • Maintain network-related infrastructure within EKS.

Requirements

  • BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent with 8+ years of experience.
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language (Go, TypeScript, Python, Java).
  • Solid grounding in cloud and Kubernetes networking.
  • Practical knowledge of service trust and identity.
  • Understanding of traffic resilience and performance.
  • Experience with developer connectivity abstractions.
  • Competence in observability and SLOs.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code and delivery.
  • Operational experience with chaos/fault injection.
  • Ability to communicate and mentor on networking and identity.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $165,000 - $215,000 plus equity.
  • Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Paid time off and paid parental leave.

Tech Stack

AmbassadorArgo CDGoIstioJavaKubernetesPythonTerraformTypeScript