Staff Platform Engineer
Staff Platform Engineer
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SENIORITY
Lead
About the role
- Design and run the platform our product teams deploy onto, including templates, CI/CD, and GKE Gateway API routing, so teams can ship without filing a ticket with us.
- Define SLOs with the teams that own each service, and use them to decide where reliability work goes.
- Make architecture decisions for our infrastructure and write them up as ADRs others can review.
- Review infrastructure changes across engineering and mentor the engineers making them.
- Plan capacity for clusters, databases, and caches, find and remove waste, and keep GCP spend in line with traffic as we grow.
- What You Must Have 10+ years of experience in platform, SRE or infrastructure engineering, including ownership of production systems serving millions of requests a day.
- Deep hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production, ideally GKE.Strong Terraform experience, including structuring modules and state across many environments and GCP projects.
- Solid GCP experience across networking, IAM, and core services.
- You've led a migration of production workloads between platforms without downtime.
- You write production code in Go, Python, or a similar language, and you can read application code when debugging.
- You explain technical tradeoffs clearly in writing, to engineers and to non-engineers.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
- Industry certifications (Google Cloud Professional, SRE or related certifications preferred)
- Practical experience with AI coding tools, and a view on where they help in infrastructure work and where they don'tNice to have
- Cloudflare, including WAF and bot management
- Redis at scale, including clustered deployments
- OpenTelemetry and Prometheus
- Building or running an on-call and incident program
- Full autonomy to define processes, select technologies, and establish best practices
- Direct impact on platform reliability serving millions of users
- Opportunity to create lasting engineering culture and operational excellence
- Remote-first culture with in-person meeting in Dallas, TX on need basis
- Collaborative environment with smart, passionate engineers and cross-functional teams
- Access to cutting-edge technologies and AI-driven development tools
- Competitive compensation, equity participation, and comprehensive benefits
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