Gradial

Principal Platform Engineer

Gradial
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3 months ago

Responsibilities

  • Own the reliability, scalability, and operational health of the production platform
  • Lead the evolution of Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure as code
  • Set standards for designing, shipping, and operating reliable systems
  • Build tooling and automation that help engineers move faster with greater confidence
  • Improve monitoring, alerting, incident response, and service readiness
  • Partner with engineering teams to identify and resolve scaling risks
  • Influence the long-term platform direction across reliability, security, performance, and cost

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or related roles with direct production-system ownership
  • Proven success designing and operating production-grade infrastructure in fast-moving, high-growth environments
  • Deep expertise in Kubernetes, cloud-native architecture, and container orchestration
  • 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
  • Track record of leading through influence, making sound technical decisions, and raising engineering standards
  • Preferred familiarity with AI or ML infrastructure, GPU provisioning, model deployment, or compute-intensive workloads
  • Preferred experience supporting cloud or multi-cloud environments with a focus on resilience and scale
  • Preferred comfort with TypeScript or Python for internal tooling and operational automation

Benefits

  • Meaningful equity and competitive salary
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Fast-paced environment with autonomy and ownership
  • Opportunity for significant impact with minimal bureaucracy
  • Opportunity to build AI infrastructure
  • Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation may request assistance during the application or interview process

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
Gradial

About Gradial

51-200 employees

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.

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