Senior Staff Cloud Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Establish the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for Infrastructure Services.

• Shape the roadmap and investment strategies, including decisions on building versus buying.

• Define patterns, standards, and guidelines across compute, network and edge, as well as stateful services.

• Act as the representative for Infrastructure Services in cross-organizational reviews involving product engineering, security, and finance.

• Serve as the leading technical voice for the platform throughout the organization.

• Create design documents and prototypes, review intricate designs, and maintain hands-on technical involvement.

• Act as an escalation point for significant incidents.

• Propel organization-wide enhancements to incident management, reliability targets, and disaster recovery processes.

• Lead the strategy for cloud cost, capacity, and efficiency with measurable objectives.

• Promote automation and AI-assisted operations to minimize organizational toil.

• Mentor Staff and Senior engineers.

• Elevate the standards for design reviews and engineering practices.

• Assist in the recruitment and development of infrastructure leaders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in setting technical direction across multiple teams or an entire organization.

• Experience in owning multi-year infrastructure strategy or architecture.

• Production-scale Kubernetes expertise in multi-cluster, multi-tenant environments with customer traffic; EKS or similar managed platforms preferred.

• Extensive knowledge of autoscaling, admission control, GitOps, workload identity, and fleet-wide cluster upgrades.

• Proficient understanding of networking, edge services, and stateful data systems.

• Experience in defining SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, along with driving organizational adoption.

• Proven track record in improving incident response, post-incident learning, and disaster recovery within an organization.

• Demonstrated ability to achieve cloud cost reductions through capacity automation, right-sizing, architectural changes, or commitment strategies.

• Experience collaborating with finance on forecasting and trade-offs.

• Expertise in driving workload identity, least-privilege IAM and RBAC, credential rotation, and strong multi-tenant isolation.

• Proficiency in Go or a similar programming language.

• Skilled in Infrastructure as Code, particularly with Terraform.

• History of automating complex, high-toil operational workflows at a fleet scale.

• Capable of writing strategy and design documents, presenting to senior leaders, resolving technical disagreements, and fostering alignment.

• Experience in mentoring Senior and Staff engineers, as well as contributing to the hiring and evaluation of technical talent.

• Legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada; no work authorization, relocation assistance, or visa sponsorship provided.

• Successful completion of a background check is required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health benefits.

• Dental benefits.

• 401(k) or RRSP retirement program.

• Generous paid time off.

• Equity grant / RSU program.

• Incentive programs, where applicable.

• Maternity and parental leave top-up programs.

• Retirement matching program.

• Free 1Password account.

• Paid volunteer days.

• Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly.

• Remote-first work environment.

• Opportunities for travel for in-person engagement, including offsites, team meetings, and customer/industry events.