Senior Platform Engineer
Impact.com2 months ago
Cape Town, South AfricaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and operate platform-layer infrastructure including VPCs, compute pools, storage, Kubernetes clusters, and networking.
- Translate configuration data into inputs for Cloud Operations’ infrastructure-as-code modules.
- Operate and monitor managed pub/sub messaging systems such as Kafka.
- Design and evolve high-level infrastructure abstractions that produce secure, highly available deployments by default.
- Maintain 99.9% uptime, own infrastructure change management, and drive a change success rate above 95%.
- Build post-incident learning practices and participate in production incident response and on-call support.
- 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 interactions.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and GitOps tooling such as Argo CD, Flux, or equivalent.
- Production incident-response experience and willingness to be on-call for critical infrastructure.
- Knowledge of observability fundamentals and 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, with AWS or Azure preferred.
- Preferred experience designing and operating shared-services infrastructure at scale.
- Preferred familiarity with Kafka and managed pub/sub messaging systems.
- Preferred experience with service mesh patterns and their infrastructure implications.
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 3-year vesting schedule, pending Board approval.
- Free Coursera subscription and PXA courses.
- 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers and 13 weeks for secondary caregivers.
- Technology stipend for a home office and monthly internet allowance.
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About Impact.com
Impact.com builds a SaaS platform for partnership and affiliate marketing, used by brands to manage affiliates, influencers, content publishers, and referrals, with tools for tracking, attribution, commissioning, and fraud detection. Its revenue comes from software subscriptions and related services. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, it is privately held and counts customers such as Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oréal, and Fanatics.