Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer Job Description

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain our internal developer platform (IDP). The primary focus of this role is to enable fast, reliable, and secure software delivery by combining expertise in CI/CD automation, Kubernetes orchestration, system security, and performance optimization. The ideal candidate treats the platform as a core product, ensuring our internal development teams are its satisfied customers.

Key Responsibilities

1. Manage Internal Developer Platform (IDP) & Infrastructure

• Kubernetes Management: Design, deploy, and maintain highly available and scalable Kubernetes clusters (e.g., EKS, GKE, or self-managed) for hosting our microservices architecture.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Utilize Terraform to provision and manage cloud infrastructure and services in a secure, repeatable, and version-controlled manner.
• Self-Service Enablement: Develop self-service tools, APIs, and interfaces that empower development teams to provision their own environments and deploy applications, thus reducing their cognitive load.
• Design and govern the Nx workspace for shared frontend and Node utilities, including project graph, tagging strategy, and enforceable boundaries between domain layers.
• Implement affected-based incremental builds, local and remote caching with Nx Cloud, and distributed task execution integrated with GitHub Actions.
• Author and maintain generators/schematics and custom executors (for example, wrapping Go builds, Protocol Buffers/GraphQL code-generation, or documentation pipelines) to standardize scaffolding and delivery.
• Operate a disciplined upgrade path using `nx migrate`, deprecation handling, and workspace health checks; publish release notes and rollback plans.
• Establish linting and policy gates (package boundaries, dependency constraints) and visualize the project graph to prevent architectural drift.
• Provide developer enablement: golden-path templates, workspace documentation, office hours, and metrics on cache hits, build times, and CI throughput.
• Publish and maintain Nx generators and workspace libraries to accelerate service and feature scaffolding; enforce dependency constraints and package boundaries.
• Integrate Nx Cloud with GitHub Actions for remote cache reuse across branches and pull requests; tune caching keys and artifact retention for cost and performance.
• Run `nx affected` workflows to scope CI, test, and deploy steps; measure and improve build/test turnaround times and change failure rate.

2. CI/CD and Automation

• Pipeline Development: Build, optimize, and maintain robust Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines (e.g., using GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins) to ensure rapid, high-quality software releases.
• Deployment Strategies: Implement advanced deployment patterns such as Blue/Green releases to minimize downtime and mitigate deployment risk.
• Toil Reduction: Write and maintain automation scripts and custom tooling to eliminate manual operational tasks and improve overall engineering velocity.

3. Security and Compliance (DevSecOps)

• Shift-Left Security: Embed automated security scanning tools (e.g., vulnerability scanners, static analysis) directly into the CI/CD pipelines to catch issues early.
• Access Control: Implement and manage security policies, Network Policies, and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) within Kubernetes and cloud environments.
• Secrets Management: Design and maintain a secure system for managing application secrets and credentials (e.g., using HashiCorp Vault).

4. System Optimization and Observability

• Performance Tuning: Optimize the platform for performance, cost-efficiency, and scale, including resource management and auto-scaling within Kubernetes clusters.
• Monitoring & Alerting: Implement and manage comprehensive observability stacks, including centralized logging, metrics, and tracing to ensure system health and performance.
• System Reliability: Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to improve system reliability, resilience, and operational excellence.

QualificationsRequired Qualifications

6-10 years of professional experience in Platform, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.

• Deep expertise in Kubernetes administration and operations.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
• Strong hands-on experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP – preferably AWS).
• Solid experience developing and maintaining modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in a scripting or programming language (e.g., SQL, Go).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to serve development teams effectively.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating AWS WAF for CloudFront/ALB with managed and custom rule sets, rate limiting, and log analysis.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with GitOps workflows and tools (e.g., Argo CD, Flux).
• Experience with compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC2, ISO).
• Proficiency securing Amazon CloudFront distributions (TLS policies, origin access control, signed URLs/cookies, cache and origin policies).
• Practical DDoS readiness using AWS Shield Standard and coordinated procedures with WAF tuning.
• Operational expertise with Amazon GuardDuty findings lifecycle (triage, suppression, auto-remediation) at multi-account scale.
• Advanced CloudWatch skills for security monitoring (metric filters, alarms, dashboards) and retention/partitioning strategies for CloudWatch Logs.
• Nx certification (Nx/Nrwl) and hands-on experience operating Nx and Nx Cloud in production monorepos.
• Experience authoring Nx generators/executors and integrating Nx with GitHub Actions for distributed task execution and remote caching.

Educational requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or 10 years of field experience; Master’s degree preferred.
• Amazon Web Services certifications preferred (for example, Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer).
• Kubernetes certifications preferred (CKA, CKAD, or CKS).
• Nx certification preferred (Nx/Nrwl).

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $116,335.00 - $140,102.36 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Work Location: Remote