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Senior Platform Engineer

Skills
DevopsDatabasesFoundationsHoneycombIdentity And Access ManagementPermissionsProduction Management
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in platform engineering DevOps SRE infrastructure engineering or backend-adjacent cloud operations
  • A track record of owning production systems where reliability security and developer velocity all matter
  • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure Kubernetes infrastructure-as-code CI/CD secrets management access controls and observability
  • Experience building internal developer tooling platform automation or AI-assisted development workflows
  • Comfort designing safe release processes with deployment gates smoke tests rollback paths and clear ownership
  • Practical experience supporting relational databases and production data changes
  • A security-minded approach to infrastructure including least privilege auditability secret handling and controlled production access
  • Clear written communication for runbooks deployment notes incident follow-ups and engineering decisions

Nice to have

  • High-velocity mindset
  • Strong technical judgment
  • Security-minded
  • Reliable
  • Pragmatic
  • Collaborative

Day to day

  • Own and improve the platform foundation that helps a high-velocity engineering team ship safely across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, IaC, secrets, networking, access controls, CI/CD, observability, and production guardrails.
  • Build internal tooling for an AI-enabled engineering workflow, including automation, repo and CI feedback loops, agent-ready development environments, and safeguards that let engineers move quickly without weakening production discipline.
  • Strengthen operational readiness through better logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, runbooks, and incident follow-up.
  • Harden production access with least-privilege IAM, secure secret management, auditability, and controlled break-glass paths.
  • Set pragmatic platform standards that help a small team move quickly today while avoiding infrastructure, reliability, and security debt tomorrow.