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Lead Platform Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
13 days ago
Salary
$180K - $215K / year
Job Description
Job Requirements
- Build strong, collaborative relationships evidenced by proactive engagement from product teams
- Continually improve system reliability and observability coverage
- Reduce tooling and config complexity so that engineers spend less time fighting tools and more time building features
- Optimize Infrastructure costs without compromising reliability
- Reduce time-to-production for new features and services
- Ensure reliable, repeatable, and better standardized deployments with minimal manual intervention
- Must-Have Skills and Experience
- Soft Skills
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration abilities beyond traditional IT/ops boundaries—you regularly engage with functions across the business to understand their needs, gather feedback, and champion DevEx improvements. You're as comfortable explaining infrastructure tradeoffs in a product planning meeting as you are debugging a Kubernetes cluster
- Ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences alike, and leverages visuals, data, and concise documentation to build shared understanding
- Deep empathy for DevEx—you genuinely understand engineer pain points, involve users in design decisions, and measure success by how much you improve their daily work
- Positive, team-oriented mindset that treats every day as an opportunity to improve and inspire others through your can-do attitude
- Technical
- Previous experience on a platform engineering team where you led complex infrastructure or tooling migration efforts and built useful dev-focused tools that required deep understanding of product development workflows, sprint planning, and release cycles across multiple pods
- Deep practical experience architecting and implementing solutions in AWS, backed by strong command of cloud design patterns and technologies
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes containerized workloads and orchestration
- Strong command of observability tools like DataDog or Prometheus
- Proficiency in Terraform IaC
- Experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and associated best practices
- Solid experience with Git via Gitlab, Github, or Bitbucket.
- Familiarity with GitOps tooling like Spacelift or Flux
- Strong project management skills that balance interrupt-driven and roadmap work
- Eagerness to learn new and evolving technologies in the Platform Engineering ecosystem
- Bonus Points For
- Frontend or backend development skills
- Previous experience as project lead or team lead
- Experience working embedded with or closely partnering with product squads/pods in an agile environment
- Use of AI tooling to help improve efficiency in your daily work
- Previous experience tuning SQL and caching technologies
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