Senior Platform Engineer

Job Overview

This role involves building and automating the infrastructure for a global cloud platform, focusing on tools, services, and systems to ensure reliable operation at scale. The work emphasizes coding in Go and Python, designing cluster provisioning, and improving Kubernetes automation to reduce manual efforts.

Responsibilities

• Build internal tools and services that power cloud infrastructure.
• Develop automation and platform components using Go and Python.
• Design systems for cluster provisioning, lifecycle management, and infrastructure automation.
• Improve Kubernetes automation through controllers, operators, and infrastructure tooling.
• Design solutions that reduce operational toil and eliminate manual infrastructure work.
• Improve reliability, scalability, and observability of the cloud platform.
• Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams on system architecture and automation.
• Participate in incident response and implement improvements to prevent recurrence.
• Continuously improve the internal platform used to operate the cloud.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure software engineering.
• Strong programming skills (Go preferred, Python acceptable).
• Experience building automation or tooling for cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production.
• Experience working with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong understanding of Linux systems and networking fundamentals.
• Experience improving reliability through automation and systems design.
• Comfortable participating in on-call rotations.

Nice to Have

• Experience building Kubernetes controllers or operators.
• Experience with Terraform or infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.
• Experience operating large-scale SaaS infrastructure.
• Experience working with database or data infrastructure systems.