Staff Platform Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Establish the architecture and best practices for the platform and infrastructure layer upon which the product is developed.

• Take ownership of the deployment pipeline and spearhead the transition to a GitOps model (Argo) for rapid and secure releases.

• Design and strengthen multi-tenant isolation and blast-radius protection for premier clients, including pathways to dedicated or single-tenant deployments.

• Oversee database stabilization and the underlying platform initiatives related to performance, availability, and safe migrations.

• Create the foundational infrastructure for compliance-intensive and government deployments, encompassing encryption, authentication, boundary, and data-flow design.

• Set the benchmark for observability, on-call practices, and operational readiness throughout the engineering team, promoting a platform-first mindset.

• Partner with leadership and product teams to convert platform capabilities into offerings that are customer-facing.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent hands-on experience.

• Over 10 years of practical experience in designing, operating, and scaling high-performance production systems.

• Profound knowledge of Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tools, such as Terraform.

• Strong database expertise, particularly with Postgres, including experience in performance, availability, and migrations at scale.

• Architectural insight at both system and cross-team levels, including assessments of blast radius and changes across multiple regions.

• Proficient in at least one application programming language; preference for JVM.

• Strong security perspective, covering IaC, secrets management, least privilege principles, and common application security vulnerabilities.

• Competent and critical use of AI in daily engineering tasks, along with careful evaluation of AI outputs.

• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with a proven history of guiding technical direction that others adopt.

• Experience with FedRAMP, FISMA, or other government/compliance deployments is advantageous.

• Previous work experience in a rapidly growing startup is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive Equity Package

• National medical, dental & vision insurance (we cover 100% for employees!)

• Unlimited PTO & flexible working hours

• 401k plan

• Gender-neutral parental leave

• $1000 yearly Learning & Development stipend

• $400 monthly perks stipend (use it on anything)

• Pet Insurance