Platform Engineer

Salary: $140,000 – $200,000 per year

About the role

As a Platform Engineer, you will own the platforms, tools, and automation that underpin the engineering ecosystem. You'll automate infrastructure, streamline deployments, improve observability, and build reliable release processes. Your work will provide the foundations that empower development teams to deliver software quickly, safely, and consistently.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automation for standing up GCP and Kubernetes environments end-to-end, actively reducing manual toil and driving operational efficiency across development teams • Build and harden secure, automated CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD) to ensure rapid, reliable, and repeatable deployments of containerized services • Build robust monitoring, alerting, and logging into GCP/Kubernetes environments from the ground up, leading structured incident response, and driving continuous improvement in operational maturity • Design and implement automated tooling to streamline system and data migrations, ensuring legacy workloads are transitioned to modern containerized platforms with minimal risk and manual intervention • Integrate core systems and platform components—including API gateways, service meshes, event-driven architectures, and messaging queues—to enable highly reliable, decoupled architectures • Break down ambiguous, multi-system problems and solve them systematically in close, cross-functional…