K2 Space

Senior Platform Engineer (DevX)

K2 Space
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Base Salary

$165k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build standardized application patterns and golden-path deployment capabilities for Amazon EKS.
  • Promote secure and consistent AI adoption while supporting AI operational needs.
  • Establish AI guardrails, observability, and governance for AI-assisted application development.
  • Engineer resilient traffic paths using timeouts, retries, circuit breaking, failure isolation, chaos testing, and automated remediation.
  • Incorporate end-to-end application observability, monitoring, and alerting.
  • Create approachable documentation and diagnostics to reduce support loops.
  • Optimize latency, cross-availability-zone transfer, IP consumption, load balancer efficiency, and infrastructure cost.
  • Manage code lifecycle and platform adoption through versioning, migrations, deprecations, usage telemetry, and resource pruning.
  • Lead the long-term developer experience roadmap and mentor engineers across teams.
  • Build automated policies and processes supporting deployment quality, code hygiene, and testing practices.

Requirements

  • BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent and 8+ years of experience building developer tooling and deployment patterns.
  • Experience evaluating new AI platform technologies, AI models, and developer experience products through proofs of concept.
  • Proficiency in at least one of Go, TypeScript, Python, or C#.
  • Strong knowledge of designing, developing, and deploying applications to Amazon EKS.
  • Strong knowledge of CI/CD build pipelines using GitHub or GitLab.
  • Experience with observability, SLOs, metrics, tracing, structured logs, L4/L7 telemetry, request-path visibility, and SLI/SLO definition and enforcement.
  • Experience with Terraform or CDK, GitOps workflows, progressive or canary rollouts, and policy-as-code integration.
  • Experience with AI-assisted development processes and their benefits and challenges.
  • Must be a U.S. person under ITAR rules or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $165,000–$200,000 plus company equity.
  • Comprehensive benefits including paid time off, medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, and paid parental leave.
  • Additional company perks are available.
  • Reasonable accommodations are available during the application and interview process.

Tech Stack

C#GitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoPythonTerraformTypeScript

Categories

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About K2 Space

11-50 employees

Founded in 2004, K2 Space offers bespoke office design and build services to clients, while also working closely with clients to fulfil all of their furniture needs. Our passionate team are proud to work with leading brands like Netflix, Snapchat, Adobe, Toyota, Beats, Latham & Watkins, Groupon and Wells Fargo to create amazing new workplace. Check out our website to view our latest work | https://k2space.co.uk

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