Staff Software Engineer: Platform SRE
Core
Design, build, and operate reliable, scalable infrastructure in AWS to power Flexport's engineering platform, ensuring safe deployments, observability, and incident response for hundreds of engineers.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (Platform SRE)
Builds
Container orchestration (Kubernetes, Helm, Argo), observability stack (Openmetrics, Datadog), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), and CI/CD pipelines (Buildkit, Github Actions).
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
AWS cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), container orchestration (Kubernetes, Helm, Argo), observability (Openmetrics, Datadog), CI/CD pipelines, general-purpose programming, incident response, blameless post-mortems, security (IAM, networking), change management
Preferred skills
AWS multi-account/region management, GitOps (Argo CD), Identity and Access Management (OIDC), disaster recovery design, cloud cost optimization
Technologies
AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, Argo, Terraform, Openmetrics, Datadog, Buildkit, Github Actions, Gradle, Bazel, npm, pnpm, bun, Go, Cargo, Artifactory, ECR, github
Responsibilities
Design and operate scalable infrastructure in AWS; evolve container orchestration and deployment systems; improve observability stacks; set standards for Infrastructure-as-Code; create and support CI/CD pipelines; improve incident response tooling; align with product teams on platform-wide changes
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic impact
