Senior Staff Cloud Platform Engineer
Core
Designs, builds, and operates the cloud platform and developer tooling that engineering teams build on top of, providing self-service infrastructure, paved-road workflows, and operational guardrails.
Role type
Senior Staff Cloud Platform Engineer
Builds
Internal developer platforms (IDPs), golden paths, reusable infrastructure modules, and secure automated delivery pipelines.
Domain
Cloud infrastructure and platform engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Cloud platform expertise (AWS/Azure/GCP), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terragrunt, AWS CloudFormation), Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm), CI/CD and GitOps, DevSecOps tooling, Python or Go programming, Cloud networking, Observability tools, SRE practices (SLI/SLO/SLA), FinOps
Preferred skills
Multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud experience, Internal developer platform (IDP) experience, Event streaming and caching technologies, Compliance and regulatory exposure, Cloud certifications
Technologies
Terraform, Terragrunt, AWS CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD, Spinnaker, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, Istio, Linkerd, Vault, OPA, Conftest
Responsibilities
Analyze business and engineering requirements to determine feasibility of platform designs; lead architectural reviews for cloud initiatives; design larger platform enhancements and cross-system infrastructure; develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code, platform services, and automation; define and operationalize SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets; establish on-call, incident management, and blameless post-incident review practices; enforce immutable infrastructure and reproducible builds; drive reliability improvements through capacity planning and chaos testing.
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with technical leadership across multiple teams