Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants anywhere in the world.

📋 Description

• Define the architecture and design choices for the platform from the outset.

• Ensure that code produced by agents and structured workflows adhere to architectural standards.

• Proactively identify scaling risks, bottlenecks, and capacity limitations before they impact production.

• Create security models addressing trust chains, credential exposure, isolation, and untrusted execution environments.

• Enhance CI performance, reliability, reporting, and automated performance metrics.

• Resolve operational issues and encode solutions as conventions, review checks, skills, or acceptance tests.

• Automate evidence for SOC 2 compliance and verify dependency patching.

• Track cloud expenditures and identify billing irregularities across service providers.

• Manage alerting, patching, initial response, incident recovery, and post-incident improvements.

• Ensure the platform is well-documented, high-performing, and reliable.

• Provide support for Swamp Club services, including SSO, organization and authentication management, and event-driven systems.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proficient with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, containers, networking, operating systems, cloud platforms, and observability.

• Capable of reasoning about system architecture, ownership, system boundaries, and potential failure modes.

• Experience in operating production systems and engaging in on-call duties and incident response.

• Skilled in profiling systems and investigating compute, memory, disk I/O, networking, and service boundary bottlenecks.

• Knowledgeable in software supply-chain integrity, signing, provenance, dependency trust, authentication, authorization, secrets management, and isolation for untrusted code.

• Competent in leveraging AI in engineering tasks while understanding associated risks such as prompt injection, over-privileged tools, and untrusted contexts.

• Strong collaboration skills across engineering, product, security, finance, and other teams.

• Experience with SOC 2 or a comparable compliance framework is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Stock Options: 0.15% - 0.25% Fully Diluted.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and more.

• A non-accrual PTO Plan, also known as “unlimited.” We suggest taking a week off each quarter to disconnect completely.

• A generous budget to support your home office and equipment requirements.

• Up to twice a year, you will join the team in person for Work Together Week at a selected location.