SRE / Platform engineer

## About the Role As a key member of our Platform Engineering team, you'll own and evolve the systems that keep our infrastructure fast, reliable, and developer-friendly. You'll lead our observability, CI/CD, and GitOps initiatives—empowering engineers to ship confidently and our systems to scale intelligently. You'll work in a high-traffic, data-driven environment built on EKS, FastAPI, MySQL/ClickHouse, and Kafka, helping ensure everything from deployments to dashboards runs smoothly and securely. ## What You'll Do - Own and evolve our observability stack, from data collection through long-term retention and dashboarding. - Implement GitOps workflows with ArgoCD (or similar), automating application lifecycles from commit to production. - Collaborate on data lake architecture and tooling ensuring platform infrastructure supports analytics and data engineering workflows. - Maintain and scale EKS clusters, ensuring high availability, cost efficiency, and performance. - Collaborate closely with backend and infrastructure engineers to standardize environments, automate workflows, and reduce deployment friction. - Define and enforce security best practices within CI/CD and AWS environments. - Continuously improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response playbooks. ## Must-Haves - Observability Expert: Deep Prometheus, Thanos or VictoriaMetrics experience, Grafana, PromQL, SLO design, dashboarding and alerting - K8S Expertise: Solid, hands-on experience managing production workloads on K8S or Amazon EKS (including scaling, upgrades, and cost management). - GitOps Champion: Hands-on experience with ArgoCD, Flux, or similar tools managing production deployments. ## Nice-to-Haves - Experience managing stateful services (e.g., MySQL, KeyDB/Redis, ClickHouse, Cassandra). - Familiarity with Terraform or Pulumi for IaC. - Scripting experience (Python, Bash, or Go) for automation and tooling. - Experience supporting data-heavy or real-time systems (Kafka, analytics platforms, etc.). ## Success Looks Like - Seamless, automated deployments across all environments. - Actionable observability: metrics and alerts that detect issues before users do. - Zero-downtime rollouts and predictable releases. - Developers fully empowered to ship code quickly and safely.