Staff Platform Engineer

About the Role

The Staff Platform Engineer focuses on delivering platforms and relentlessly improving developer experience. They automate processes and develop self-service capabilities around infrastructure and application delivery. They serve as an escalation point for junior engineers.

Uses DevOps practices and thinking to guide automation efforts across infrastructure provisioning and application delivery and deployment activities. Works to increase deployment frequency, decrease failure change rate, decrease the mean time to recover (MTTR), and decrease lead time.

• Writes code to provision infrastructure and deploy applications.
• Focuses on customer service and using empathy to improve developer experience.
• Builds trust with teams participating in conversations about new practices.
• Takes work breakdowns from other team members asking questions to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Comfortable with some degree of ambiguity and change.
• Collaboratively uses tools that improve developer productivity--especially focusing on tools that are part of CI/CD processes that improve the speed and safety of deployment pipelines through the software development lifecycle.
• Uses SLOs (service level objectives) to define SLIs (service level indicators) to observe application and infrastructure health.
• Uses that data for troubleshooting infrastructure and applications.

Requirements

• BS with 4 years experience
• AS with 6 years experience
• HS with 8 years experience
• Experience building cloud infrastructure in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Need experience with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools like Terraform or Pulumi for provisioning resources.
• Experience scripting tasks using Bash, Python, PowerShell, Go, or similar languages.
• Familiarity with Git and workflows for reviewing and releasing code.
• Experience with TCP/IP networking, DNS, and Certificate management
• Familiarity with CI/CD processes and tools for building and deploying application code.