Senior Platform Engineer

Job Description

Why this role matters:

On the Platform Engineering Team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing internal tool sets used by our Engineering teams in their daily routines. The goal of these efforts is to reduce toil and streamline the process of modernizing internal applications. The primary focus is on implementing and managing Cloud Native Kubernetes-based platform ecosystems to deliver the platform of choice hosting production API’s. You’ll be involved in every aspect of engineering from software development strategies, dev workflows, HA and scalability aligned with modern GitOps practices ensuring that the SLA/SLO and cost objectives of the services are maintained, and improved upon.

Your key responsibilities:

In this position you’ll actively seek out ways to contribute and bring new ideas. You will have the opportunity to extensively utilize open source projects/software, often focusing on developing the 'glue' that integrates systems and enhancing their feature sets. Bringing a sense of vision and contributing to the requirements is expected and encouraged.

What you'll bring

Required:

6+ years of progressive experience in a combination of development, design in areas of cloud computing

Coding skills in modern language, ideally Python or Go and SDLC management.

Automate Kubernetes infrastructure deployment and management using tools such as Terraform, Crossplane to develop self-service platform workflows

Strong Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) experience on public Cloud (AWS and/or GCP), integrating Terraform/Crossplane to extend IaC capabilities across multiple cloud providers.

Fluency with Cloud API SDK’s (AWS/GCP) and identify opportunities to deliver self service capabilities for the most common infrastructure and application management tasks

Experience with Unix/Linux OS internals (filesystems, system calls) and networking

Experience in working on a large scale, highly available, cloud native infrastructure platform on a public cloud, preferably in a consumer business

Experience with any K8s managed service (EKS/GKE) with connected automation and orchestration tool development experience such as Argo, Helm, Terraform, Ansible and CNCF tooling ecosystem.

On-call support won't be necessary at first, but may be eventually

Experience we consider a plus:

Expertise in building platform tooling in Kubernetes, developing architecture patterns and templates for application runtimes, K8s cluster topology, traffic shaping, API, CI/CD, and observability stacks on AWS or GCP cloud.

Experience coding in other programming languages, ideally Go operator framework

Platform security experience, including patching and hardening

Familiarity with the CNCF tooling across the ecosystem

Exposure to any observability platforms using open-source tools like VictoriaMetrics, Thanos, Cortex, Prometheus, Datalog and Grafana.

How you’ll benefit:

Medical Insurance

Glasses Reimbursement

Life Insurance – Allianz Family

Kafeteria – My Benefit

Ericsson Care Line

Discretionary Time Off (DTO)

Volunteer Time Off (VTO)

Additional benefits and perks will be discussed during the interview process