Platforms Engineer
Storyblocks2 months ago
Remote, United States or Arlington, VA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$122k - $129k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build, operate, and scale AWS infrastructure for the company’s microservices platform.
- Develop and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines.
- Create reusable, templated deployment and pipeline configurations using Helm charts and CircleCI orbs.
- Manage infrastructure through code with application-code-level rigor.
- Improve observability and monitoring for production systems.
- Partner with product engineering teams to explain platform concepts and reduce development friction.
- Document technical trade-offs and grow into leading complex platform projects end to end.
Requirements
- Comfort working with AWS and its core services.
- Experience using observability or monitoring tools such as Datadog.
- Proficiency with at least one scripting or programming language.
- Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform, or willingness to learn it.
- Experience helping run and scale infrastructure.
- Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Ability to communicate complex platform concepts, evaluate trade-offs, take ownership, and learn new tools.
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States; employment visa sponsorship is not available.
- Preferred experience includes Helm, Kubernetes or other container orchestration, ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, Istio, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Datadog or another APM/observability tool, database operations, microservices design and deployment, security, release engineering, or QA.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $122,000-$129,200.
- Traditional and Roth 401(k) plans with a company match.
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents.
- Paid parental leave, including recovery and bonding leave for eligible parents.
- Unlimited vacation, typically three or four weeks annually, plus company-wide breaks in July and December.
- Fully remote work arrangement with company and team events.
- Company-sponsored mentorship, meetup support, and access to an on-staff leadership coach.
- Financial wellness resources, a restaurant delivery subscription benefit, and an employee recognition and rewards program.
- Casual work environment.
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About Storyblocks
Storyblocks provides a subscription-based library of royalty-free stock video, audio, images, and templates for creators, marketers, and businesses. Customers get unlimited downloads plus workflow tools such as an Adobe Creative Cloud plugin and AI-assisted features. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, the company is privately held and backed by Great Hill Partners.