Senior Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
Core
Design, build, and operate production cloud-native Kubernetes platforms, including networking, service mesh, and reliability systems for internal engineering teams.
Role type
Senior hands-on IC platform engineer (cloud infrastructure)
Builds
Production Kubernetes clusters, Go/Python/Java controllers, service mesh capabilities, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, Kubernetes internals
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
Kubernetes internals (CNI, NetworkPolicy, scheduling), Go/Python/Java development, service mesh (Istio/Envoy/Linkerd), Terraform, Linux (cgroups), cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), observability (Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry), relational databases (PostgreSQL), container tooling (Docker)
Preferred skills
Kubernetes controllers/operators, Python testing (Ginkgo/Gomega), identity management (Vault/OIDC/SAML), high availability/disaster recovery, monorepo/Bazel, Java reading, Alibaba Cloud, large-scale data platforms (Spark/Flink)
Technologies
Kubernetes, Go, Python, Java, Terraform, Istio, Envoy, Linkerd, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, PostgreSQL, Docker, GCP, AWS, Azure, Bazel
Responsibilities
Design and operate production Kubernetes clusters with multi-region topologies; write and maintain Go/Python/Java services and controllers; implement service mesh capabilities (mTLS, traffic management); lead incident response and root cause analysis; build and improve CI/CD and GitOps workflows; define SLOs and build actionable alerting; migrate production workloads between cloud providers; instrument services for distributed tracing and diagnostics
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
