Senior Platform Engineer
Impact.comabout 2 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, deployment, and operation of platform infrastructure including VPCs, compute pools, storage, Kubernetes clusters, and networking.
- Translate configuration data into inputs for infrastructure-as-code modules supplied by Cloud Operations.
- Own monitoring and operations for managed pub/sub messaging systems such as Kafka.
- Design and evolve abstractions that convert high-level service infrastructure requirements into secure, highly available, production-grade deployments.
- Operate platform infrastructure to 99.9% uptime and drive a change success rate above 95%.
- Own infrastructure change management and build a strong post-incident learning process.
- Partner with Cloud Operations to consume, improve, and provide operational feedback on infrastructure-as-code modules.
- Set technical standards for code reviews, controller patterns, GitOps practices, infrastructure-as-code consumption, and operational runbooks.
- Mentor junior engineers and establish the quality bar for infrastructure software engineering.
Requirements
- Software or infrastructure engineering experience operating production Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and hands-on Java experience.
- Deep Kubernetes expertise and comfort with the Linux command line.
- Strong networking and cloud architecture knowledge, including VPCs, subnets, load balancing, security, and service mesh interaction.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
- Production incident response experience and willingness to be on-call for critical infrastructure.
- Working knowledge of observability fundamentals including metrics, logs, and traces, plus experience consuming observability backends.
- Experience mentoring junior engineers and maintaining a technical quality bar.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Hands-on experience with GCP; AWS or Azure experience is preferred.
- Experience designing and operating shared services infrastructure at scale is preferred.
- Familiarity with Kafka and the operational characteristics of pub/sub messaging systems is preferred.
- Experience with service mesh patterns and their infrastructure implications is preferred.
Benefits
- Flexible working with a Responsible PTO policy.
- Up to 12 fully covered therapy or coaching sessions per year, with additional dependent coverage.
- Monthly gym reimbursement.
- Restricted Stock Units with a three-year vesting schedule, pending Board approval.
- Free Coursera subscription and PXA courses.
- 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 13 weeks for the secondary caregiver.
- Technology stipend for a home office and monthly internet allowance.
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About Impact.com
impact.com, the world’s leading partnership management platform, is transforming the way businesses manage and optimize all types of partnerships—including traditional rewards affiliates, influencers, commerce content publishers, B2B, and more. The company’s powerful, purpose-built platform makes it easy for businesses to create, manage, and scale an ecosystem of partnerships with the brands and communities that customers trust to make purchases, get information, and entertain themselves at home, at work, or on the go. To learn more about how impact.com’s technology platform and partnerships marketplace is driving revenue growth for global enterprise brands such as Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oreal and Fanatics, visit www.impact.com.