12 hours ago
Base Salary
$180k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical direction of the platform across infrastructure, reliability, developer experience, security, performance, and cost.
- Own the reliability, scalability, and operational health of the production platform.
- Lead platform initiatives from problem definition and architecture through hands-on implementation and production deployment.
- Evolve Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure-as-code foundations as the organization scales.
- Build tooling, abstractions, and automation that improve development, deployment, and production operations.
- Set engineering standards for reliability, service readiness, deployment, and operational ownership.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, incident response, and observability, turning operational learnings into durable platform improvements.
- Identify infrastructure bottlenecks and scaling risks and prioritize solutions across the company.
- Provide technical leadership through architecture, design reviews, mentorship, and hands-on collaboration.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with significant experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or related areas.
- Proven ability to technically lead complex platform initiatives while remaining deeply hands-on.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes, cloud-native architecture, container orchestration, and production infrastructure.
- Strong experience with infrastructure as code, GitOps, CI/CD workflows, and modern deployment practices.
- Strong command of observability and reliability fundamentals, including metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and incident response.
- Experience designing and operating production infrastructure for rapidly growing products and engineering teams.
- Ability to establish technical direction and drive execution across multiple engineers.
- Strong technical judgment regarding reliability, scalability, performance, and cost.
- Ability to lead through influence, create alignment, and raise technical standards without formal authority.
- Preferred experience with AI or ML infrastructure, GPU provisioning, model deployment, compute-intensive workloads, cloud or multi-cloud environments, and demanding reliability requirements.
- Preferred proficiency with TypeScript or Python for internal tooling and operational automation.
Benefits
- Performance-based annual bonus and meaningful equity awards.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, fully covered for employees with 75% coverage for dependents.
- Fertility and family-planning support, 401k plan, and unlimited PTO.
- Seattle office with a gym, sauna, and bike parking.
- Free lunch three days a week at headquarters.
- Flexible work hours and a collaborative learning-focused culture.
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About Gradial
Gradial builds an enterprise marketing operations platform that orchestrates tools, workflows, and teams to automate content and campaign execution for marketing organizations. It sells its software to enterprises seeking to streamline complex martech stacks and speed time from idea to launch. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the company is privately held and focuses on improving omni-channel content operations for large brands.