Senior/Staff Platform Engineer
CodeRabbit3 months ago
Base Salary
$220k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the compute, orchestration, and infrastructure layer supporting CodeRabbit’s AI engine and products.
- Build the platform function from zero to one and establish technical direction, reusable patterns, and foundational architecture.
- Design and operate multi-region cloud infrastructure and large-scale distributed systems.
- Develop and maintain Kubernetes operators, controllers, admission webhooks, autoscaling, networking, and runtime-level platform capabilities.
- Build infrastructure and automation using Terraform, Node.js/TypeScript, or Go.
- Establish observability through custom instrumentation, distributed tracing, and SLO-based alerting.
- Make early architectural decisions with emphasis on correctness, reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
- Own outcomes from proposal through production in a high-ownership engineering culture.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or site reliability engineering, with an emphasis on building platforms.
- Deep hands-on Kubernetes experience, including control-plane configuration, operators or controllers, scheduler tuning, and runtime-level debugging.
- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems and debugging distributed production failures.
- Strong GCP or AWS cloud compute experience, including infrastructure, networking, storage, and underlying compute primitives.
- Proficiency with Docker and container runtime internals, including image layering, networking modes, security contexts, and build optimization.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes CRDs, admission webhooks, RBAC, network policies, and autoscaling.
- Advanced Terraform skills covering module design, state management, and programmatic provisioning patterns.
- Experience with Node.js/TypeScript or Go for platform tooling, operators, and automation.
- Experience with Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, or equivalent observability systems, including instrumentation, distributed tracing, and SLO-based alerting.
- Strong Linux internals, networking fundamentals, storage systems, and eBPF knowledge.
Tech Stack
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About CodeRabbit
CodeRabbit builds an AI-powered code review platform for software development teams, integrating with Git hosts, IDEs, and CI to review pull requests and commits, surface issues, and suggest fixes. Founded in 2023 and based in San Francisco, the privately held company is SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR compliant and lists customers such as The Economist and Life360.