Staff Platform Engineer – Infra, DevOps

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

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and manage scalable distributed systems and infrastructure.

• Construct and oversee infrastructure and core services that power Honor’s Care Platform.

• Provide essential building blocks that enable the engineering organization to deliver reliably and efficiently.

• Take ownership of build and deployment pipelines for services.

• Maintain environments and their supporting infrastructure.

• Advise on suitable abstractions for recurring problem patterns.

• Manage applications and infrastructure across various cloud services.

• Utilize software design patterns, architecture, operations, automation, and containerization technologies such as Kubernetes.

• Automate code lifecycle management from development to production.

• Implement observability measures to monitor and enhance application performance across multiple environments.

• Create an efficient developer experience for local development.

• Support a variety of cross-functional teams as platform engineering customers.

• Foster talent through mentorship.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 6 years of professional experience in a platform engineering team within a product-focused organization.

• Over 5 years of experience designing and implementing foundational patterns and libraries for Python applications, covering technologies from API services to event processing.

• At least 3 years of experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as CDK, Terraform, and Ansible.

• A minimum of 3 years of experience collaborating with a production system running on Kubernetes.

• 3+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering, preferably with AWS.

• Over 3 years of experience developing and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins and ArgoCD.

• Proficiency in scripting and automation, including Bash, Python, or Go, along with software engineering principles.

• Familiarity with Helm, including managing Helm charts, creating custom charts from existing ones, or developing new charts.

• Experience with networking security and secret-management tools such as Vault and AWS SSM.

• Expertise in automating code lifecycle management from development to production, including code promotion and configuration management.

• Proficiency in implementing observability through tools such as CloudWatch and Datadog to monitor and enhance application performance across various environments.

• Experience with RPC architecture.

• Experience in a technology startup and understanding of evolving platform maturity.

• First-hand experience navigating multiple distributed architecture patterns.

• Knowledge of infrastructure security review and compliance frameworks.

• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical abilities.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills tailored to diverse audiences.

• Strategic thinker with a product-first mindset and customer focus.

• Passion for providing a seamless developer experience for local development.

• A keen interest in nurturing talent through mentorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first work model allows you to work from anywhere in the U.S. with occasional visits to a satellite office.

• Equity in the company.

• Comprehensive medical, mental health, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage.

• Employer-matched 401(k), with up to a 4% employer match.

• Flexible PTO (requires manager approval).

• Monthly stipend to help cover home office expenses.

• Fully employer-paid Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, and Life Insurance.

• Optional additional Life Insurance coverage available.

• Generous time-off program.

• Mental health benefits.

• Wellness program.

• Discount program.

• Zero-cost medical, dental, and vision plans for employees.

• Entirely virtual interview and onboarding process.