Staff Platform Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Lead design and operations of multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, On Premises) and Kubernetes environments, including high-availability, autoscaling, and secure networking.
• Architect and manage distributed compute systems that support large-scale, parallel workloads with efficient job scheduling and resource management.
• Build resilient CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and drive DevSecOps culture across teams.
• Implement zero-trust networking and secure connectivity solutions using Tailscale.
• Implement and maintain workspace automation (Coder Workspaces, Infrastructure as Code) to empower developers across projects.
• Own end-to-end platform observability: performance tuning, cost optimization, alerting, and incident response using tools like Grafana and Prometheus.
• Integrate and maintain secure authentication and identity management, leveraging OIDC, OAuth2, SSO, and RBAC.
• Work closely with development teams to influence cloud-native architecture decisions.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies to continuously evolve platform
• capabilities.
• Write, build, and push quality compact and optimized container images to maximize workload performance at scale.

Tech Stack

• Cloud Platforms: AWS (EKS, EC2, IAM, SSM, CloudWatch), Azure (AKS, AD, ARM)
• Kubernetes: Helm, CRDs, Operators, k0s, HPA, Network Policies, Ingress Controllers
• CI/CD & Automation: GitHub Actions, Terraform, Docker, ArgoCD
• Networking & Security: Tailscale, WireGuard, SSO/OIDC, Vault, RBAC
• Developer Tooling: Coder Workspaces, VSCode Remote, self-service portal frameworks
• Distributed Systems: Argo Workflows, Apache Airflow, Dask/Spark (nice to have)
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana

Ideal Candidate Profile

• 6+ years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure in production environments.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals, custom controllers/operators, and containerized workflows.
• Strong command of both AWS and Azure services and multi-cloud strategies.
• Expertise in writing secure, reusable infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines
• Proven experience managing distributed job scheduling, autoscaling workloads, and optimizing resource allocation, priority and queues.
• Strong grasp of network and authentication architectures, including VPN, mesh networking, and identity federation

Preferred Experience

• Experience with Tailscale, AKS, k0s, and lightweight K8s distributions.
• Docker image building and CI/CD build and push automations.
• Experience driving platform adoption and developer enablement at scale