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Platform Engineer

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Role summary

The Senior Staff Engineer will provide technical leadership for the lifecycle management of the company's Kubernetes compute platform. This role is crucial for enhancing the engineering experience within the Cloud Infrastructure organization, ensuring the reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience of the platform. Responsibilities include designing, developing, and maintaining the compute platform, driving cost efficiency, and contributing to the multi-year strategy for the Cloud Platform. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in infrastructure, public cloud providers, and Kubernetes, with a passion for efficiency and quality.

Job Title: Senior Staff Engineer

  • Duration: 12+ months (possible extension)
  • Location: Remote

Job Description:

As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Cloud Infrastructure Compute team, you’ll be the technical leader for the lifecycle management of our Kubernetes compute platform. You will enable the Cloud Infrastructure organization to work efficiently and effectively by enhancing all aspects of the engineering experience. This compute platform is the foundation for all of the features that Cloud Infrastructure delivers in security, networking, developer experience, and efficiency. This compute platform ensures the consistency required to enable delivery across multiple cloud vendors. Your peers will rely on you to provide a quality platform that makes it easy to deliver quality features to our product teams across the company. Your team will provide the reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience necessary for infrastructure teams to deliver enhancements to the platform and product teams.

A Typical Day:

  • Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
  • Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
  • Deliver enhancements that drive the cost efficiency of our cloud platform.
  • Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
  • Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
  • Contribute to the multi-year strategy to evolve client’s Cloud Platform
  • Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance the compute platform.

Required Expertise:

  • BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
  • 12+ years of relevant work experience in infrastructure
  • 4+ years of expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. EC2).
  • Experience setting technical direction, planning, and successfully executing on large projects spanning multiple teams
  • Kubernetes Experience is required.
  • Istio/Envoy Experience is preferred.
  • Passionate about efficiency, availability, quality and developer experience.
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