Senior Staff Platform Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Establish the technical direction for the platform as the leading individual contributor on the team.

• Take ownership of architecture for significant, cross-organizational infrastructure initiatives.

• Guide the implementation of the Istio service mesh across the organization.

• Develop architecture for the Multi-Region Resilience Program.

• Direct the technical vision of the AI-enhanced Service Catalog.

• Define architectural patterns, best practices, and foundational elements for other engineering teams.

• Create shared components that enhance delivery consistency across various teams.

• Troubleshoot production incidents at the mesh layer and strengthen migration tools.

• Address cross-team architectural conflicts.

• Oversee multi-organization rollouts and resolve issues related to resources, sequencing, and environment drift.

• Manage testing infrastructure strategy across various iteration environments, pre-production confidence checks, and multi-service validation.

• Mentor Staff and Senior engineers on system design, migration strategy, and collaborative initiatives.

• Spearhead infrastructure consolidations and migrations, including CI/CD platform modifications, artifact registry updates, and dependency enhancements.

• Establish metrics for platform adoption, incident trends, cost trajectories, and developer sentiment.

• Collaborate with senior engineering leadership and teams across organizational lines.

⛳️ Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in Platform, Infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles.

• Proven ownership of at least one initiative that spans multiple teams or business units.

• Extensive, production-proven knowledge in Kubernetes/EKS, service mesh, and Infrastructure-as-Code at a significant scale.

• Strong expertise in service mesh, particularly with Istio, including mTLS, traffic shaping, sidecar architecture, and multi-cluster rollout.

• History of leading complex, multi-quarter technical programs from architecture to execution.

• Ability to create cost/risk analyses and phased proposals that secure leadership buy-in and funding.

• Experience in debugging and resolving production incidents in distributed, multi-hop systems.

• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Go, Python, TypeScript, or Java.

• Capability to influence without direct authority across engineering organizations.

• Experience mentoring Staff-level engineers and shaping broader engineering system design practices.

• Familiarity with AI-native platform tools, agentic tooling, MCP-backed APIs, and best practices for deploying AI agents in production (preferred).

• Proven track record of driving large-scale cost or infrastructure consolidation initiatives with measurable business impact (preferred).

• Experience with multi-region or high-availability architecture, including RPO/RTO planning and per-journey SLO definition (preferred).

• Comfortable writing RFCs and technical proposals for leadership, as well as presenting to senior engineering leadership (preferred).

• Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without restrictions for any employer.

• Must indicate if U.S. immigration sponsorship will be necessary.

• Must disclose any prior employment or contractor/consultant engagements with Hims & Hers or its subsidiaries.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Equity compensation for full-time positions.

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).

• Company holidays.

• Quarterly mental health days.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Parental leave.

• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).

• 401k benefits with employer matching contributions.

• Offsite team retreats.

• Flexible/remote work options.

• Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans.