Senior Platform Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Design, construct, and manage production Kubernetes clusters on bare-metal infrastructure as well as public cloud platforms.

• Deploy and manage Filigran products across new regions and on different service providers.

• Create and maintain Helm charts, Ansible automation scripts, CI/CD pipelines, and a virtual appliance for on-premises setups.

• Ensure SaaS availability and reliability through observability, monitoring, capacity planning, incident management, and conducting post-incident reviews.

• Strengthen the platform and assist with compliance requirements for regulated environments, including FedRAMP and SecNumCloud.

• Leverage AI agents for infrastructure coding, incident analysis, and drafting runbooks while reviewing and taking ownership of delivered work.

• Design repositories, documentation, and guardrails that are friendly for agents.

• Define problems, suggest solutions, and document technical choices.

• Engage in a shared on-call rotation.

• Collaborate with the Platform Engineering team, Technical Product Manager, software development teams, and customer support.

• Report directly to the Director of Platform Engineering.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience as a Platform Engineer, SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Engineer.

• Practical experience in running Kubernetes in production, including the operation and troubleshooting of clusters.

• Proficient in Ansible with experience in creating and maintaining Helm charts.

• Strong foundational knowledge of Linux and networking.

• Comfortable working with at least one major cloud provider, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, or a strong willingness to learn.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and an observability stack like Prometheus and Grafana.

• Security-focused mindset concerning secrets, access, network exposure, and potential impact.

• Familiarity with using AI tools and agents in the workplace, or a keen interest in starting, with careful evaluation of their outputs.

• Willingness to read and write scripts and tooling, primarily in Python.

• Comfortable working in a remote-first, asynchronous team environment, valuing ownership, autonomy, and teamwork.

• Full professional proficiency in English.

• Nice to have: experience with bare-metal or on-premises infrastructure.

• Nice to have: knowledge of Terraform, particularly for cloud infrastructure.

• Nice to have: expertise in infrastructure security or possession of a CKS certification.

• Nice to have: experience in regulated or compliance-heavy environments.

• Nice to have: familiarity with Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Redis, or S3-compatible storage.

• Nice to have: skills in designing workflows or guardrails for AI agents.

• Nice to have: fluency in French.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary plus equity options.

• Flexibility to work remotely — operate from wherever you are based.

• A baseline of 25 days of paid time off (PTO).

• Volunteer days — paid time off to support causes that are meaningful to you.

• Choice of work equipment, with added support for remote work and development requirements.

• Two annual in-person gatherings: one global company meeting and one team-specific get-together.

• Compensation for on-call duties during nights and weekends.