Associate Platform Engineer - Build Resilient Systems

solace; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Solace is seeking a recent graduate to join our Platform Engineering team in Redwood City, CA. This in-person role focuses on building reliable cloud infrastructure, learning fast, and helping triage and fix outages with the team.

You will gain hands-on experience with Linux, container tech, and cloud platforms (GCP/AWS), while developing an intuition for systems reliability and scalable design.

Qualifications

• Curiosity about technology, how they work, and how they work with people.
• Relentless drive to dig deep into the problem and form a picture of what's going on.
• Willingness to learn from mistakes and failures.
• Thinking sideways when obvious approaches are unsuitable.

Responsibilities

• Help product and data engineers with their tooling and the internal developer platform.
• Help monitor systems health and triage signals.
• Participate in troubleshooting and applying fixes for outages along with the entire platform engineering team.
• Participate in postmortems, systems analysis and architectural review.
• Ask questions.

Skills

Linux proficiency

Troubleshooting

Systems thinking

Learning mindset

Tools

GCP

AWS

OpenTofu

Kubernetes

Job description

Solace is seeking a recent graduate to join our Platform Engineering team in Redwood City, CA. This in-person role focuses on building reliable cloud infrastructure, learning fast, and helping triage and fix outages with the team.

You will gain hands-on experience with Linux, container tech, and cloud platforms (GCP/AWS), while developing an intuition for systems reliability and scalable design.