Senior Platform Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Create tools, established paths, and self-service abstractions that allow product teams to operate efficiently.

• Focus on engineering the infrastructure layer rather than merely managing clusters.

• Develop infrastructure-as-code repositories that feature typed component resources, factories, and multi-environment stacks.

• Construct and oversee the EKS platform, which includes Karpenter autoscaling and GitOps delivery.

• Set up CI/CD pipelines and automate the release process.

• Design developer-experience tools and AI-driven development workflows.

• Implement observability, network and edge security measures, along with SOC 1/SOC 2 evidence automation.

• Plan and maintain cloud infrastructure, databases, event-driven systems, APIs, Kubernetes platforms, and security controls.

⛳️ Requirements

• In-depth knowledge of AWS services.

• Proficient in JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js.

• Strong understanding of parallel programming concepts.

• Extensive skills in PostgreSQL and ORM optimization, including experience with Prisma and Slonik.

• Practical experience with NoSQL databases such as Redis, DynamoDB, or Elasticsearch.

• Robust knowledge of system design and microservices architecture.

• Familiarity with message brokers.

• Experience in infrastructure as code using Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CDK, or similar tools.

• Proven ability to build RESTful APIs.

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production, ideally EKS.

• Knowledge of vendor-agnostic observability standards and tools.

• Understanding of network segmentation, including VPCs, subnetting, security groups, firewall settings, and DNS.

• Awareness of edge and network security, such as CloudFront, WAF, and ACM certificates.

• Experience in configuring pipelines, preferably with GitHub Actions.

• Strong skills in AI-driven development using tools like Claude, Codex, Cursor, or similar.

• Nice to have: Experience with GraphQL or gRPC.

• Nice to have: Familiarity with GitOps using ArgoCD, Kargo, and Helm.

• Nice to have: Certifications from AWS, CNCF, or the Linux Foundation.

• Nice to have: Experience with security tooling and SOC 1/SOC 2 compliance frameworks.

• Nice to have: Knowledge of SRE and reliability practices.

• Nice to have: Understanding of FinOps and cost management.

• Nice to have: Experience with compliance automation.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity grant for new hires.

• Comprehensive perks and benefits package available for all full-time employees based in the US.

• 100% remote work capability.

• Work remotely during business hours aligned with the employee’s local time zone.