Platform Engineer - Compute Capacity
Core
Design, build, and operate systems that turn capacity plans into provisioned reality, ensuring compute supply stays ahead of demand across regions and instance families.
Role type
Senior IC platform engineer (compute capacity)
Builds
Reservation acquisition systems, fleet reconciliation tools, and automation for capacity provisioning
Domain
Cloud infrastructure + SaaS platform
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi/Terraform), AWS EC2 capacity management, observability (metrics/alerting), TypeScript/Python/Go, forecasting modeling, cost optimization
Preferred skills
SaaS/cloud infrastructure scale experience, financial fluency in reservation economics, incident response
Technologies
Pulumi, Terraform, AWS EC2, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch
Responsibilities
Build and maintain capacity plans across regions; model headroom targets and cost tradeoffs; automate reservation acquisition and fleet reconciliation; instrument capacity metrics and alerting; support demand gate for customer commitments; drive down compute costs via right-sizing and placement
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
