Senior Platform Engineer
Core
Building and operating the cloud platform systems that enable every engineer at Amplitude to ship code, specifically rebuilding infrastructure for the AI era to support AI agents as first-class users.
Role type
Senior Platform Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure)
Builds
Self-service automation, scalable AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, and AI-augmented development tooling.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / DevOps / AI Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), CI/CD (Argo CD, GitHub Actions), Observability (Datadog), Golang or Python, AWS core services, GitOps workflows
Preferred skills
AI-assisted development tooling, policy-as-code, CNCF ecosystem (Helm, Backstage, Envoy)
Responsibilities
Design and ship high-impact platform capabilities for developer experience and reliability; Build AI-augmented platform tooling and workflows; Own Infrastructure-as-Code for Kubernetes and cloud providers; Evolve CI/CD backbone; Instrument and operate platform with observability and SLOs; Lead incident response and postmortems; Reduce toil and tech debt; Mentor junior engineers; Shape platform roadmap.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship