Senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with platform leadership to advance the internal developer platform towards an AI-centric model.

• Convert strategic objectives into practical and scalable implementations.

• Influence platform capabilities through direct engineering and technical contributions.

• Design and deploy self-service infrastructure systems that simplify cloud complexities.

• Create APIs, CLIs, and developer-oriented tools that facilitate infrastructure provisioning without necessitating deep cloud knowledge.

• Introduce AI-driven interfaces (CLI, chat, UI) for provisioning, debugging, and operational tasks.

• Design, construct, and manage secure, multi-tenant Amazon EKS clusters.

• Contribute to platform architecture, scalability, cost efficiency, and reliability.

• Apply best practices for policy, networking, and workload isolation.

• Develop systems that interpret infrastructure signals (logs, metrics, events) and deliver actionable insights.

• Create AI-assisted workflows for incident triage, root cause analysis, and runbook generation/execution.

• Facilitate human-in-the-loop automation for safe and controlled remediation.

• Develop platform SDKs, CLIs, and service templates that standardize infrastructure consumption.

• Contribute to AI-powered copilots and assistants to enhance developer productivity.

• Enable natural language interactions with platform services where applicable.

• Implement reusable infrastructure patterns and set clear defaults.

• Integrate security, scalability, and compliance into platform tooling.

• Extend Infrastructure as Code practices (e.g., OpenTofu) with abstraction and validation layers.

• Implement logging, metrics, and tracing across platform systems.

• Utilize AI to identify anomalies, summarize system behavior, and highlight actionable insights.

• Contribute to systems that transition from visibility to guided actions.

• Participate in platform instrumentation and feedback loops.

• Use data and developer feedback to enhance usability, performance, and adoption.

• Continuously improve platform capabilities based on practical use.

• Collaborate closely with application teams, SREs, and security engineers.

• Promote platform adoption through effective technical collaboration.

• Offer mentorship and guidance to engineers as needed.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering roles.

• Demonstrated experience in building or contributing to internal developer platforms.

• Extensive knowledge of Amazon Web Services, particularly EKS, IAM, and networking.

• Proficient programming skills (Python or Go), with a background in developing production-grade tools and services.

• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and cloud-native architectures.

• Experience or keen interest in integrating AI/LLMs into developer or operational workflows.

• Familiarity with APIs from providers like OpenAI or similar.

• Understanding of event-driven architectures and their significance in intelligent automation.

• Capability to design adaptive, feedback-driven systems instead of static workflows.

• Experience in creating developer tools (CLIs, portals, SDKs).

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.

• Employee Equity Appreciation Program.

• Health and wellness insurance benefits.

• 401k with employer match.

• Flexible work environment.

• Unlimited paid time off (including paid holidays and Winter Break).

• Paid parental leave.

• Tuition assistance, professional development, and career growth opportunities.

• Best-in-class technology equipment for every employee.

• Penthouse suite in downtown DC, just seconds away from Washington Nationals Stadium and Audi Field.