Senior Platform Engineer

About the Role

Senior Developer Experience Platform Engineer

This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who enjoys solving infrastructure challenges with software engineering practices and has a passion for improving developer experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain platform components such as container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes or Nomad), CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and observability tools.
• Develop self-service tools and abstractions to simplify deployment, scaling, and operations for product engineering teams.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, and SREs to ensure platform solutions meet their needs and promote best practices around reliability, security, and performance.
• Write high-quality, reusable code and automation scripts that reduce toil and increase repeatability across environments.
• Monitor system health and performance; drive improvements in observability, alerting, and incident response.
• Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to blameless postmortems and reliability improvements.
• Document platform standards and conduct knowledge-sharing sessions to raise platform literacy across the org.

Qualifications Required:

• 5-8 years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure, or DevOps roles.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes or Nomad, containerization, and related ecosystem tools (e.g., Helm, Traefik, Vault).
• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, Go, Java).
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Deep understanding of CI/CD systems and version control workflows (e.g., GitLab, GitHub Actions).
• Experience in all aspects of the software development life cycle
• Solid knowledge of infrastructure-as-code practices using tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
• Excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills across the stack (compute, networking, storage, etc.).
• Ability to work flexible hours when necessary for deadlines and off-hours installations

Preferred:

• Experience working with GitOps-based workflows.
• Familiarity with secrets management, service mesh, and RBAC in cloud-native environments.
• Exposure to monitoring/logging stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or OpenTelemetry.
• Background in fintech, SaaS, or other high-availability, high-security environments is a plus.