Junior Platform Engineer: Build Resilient Cloud Infra

Linuxconfig; Redwood City, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Solace seeks a Platform Engineer for their Redwood City office. This in-person role, three days a week, supports the platform engineering team by aiding product and data engineers, monitoring systems health, and troubleshooting outages.

Ideal candidates are curious about how technologies work, enjoy digging into problems, and are eager to learn from mistakes. A strong desire to understand architectures and anti-patterns is valued.

Qualifications

• Curiosity about technologies, 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. While we don’t expect you to run solo on-call, we do expect you to tag along when systems break.
• Participate in postmortems, systems analysis and architectural review.
• Ask questions

Skills

Curiosity about technologies

Problem solving

Willingness to learn from mistakes

Thinking sideways

Tools

GCP

AWS

OpenTofu

Kubernetes

Job description

Solace seeks a Platform Engineer for their Redwood City office. This in-person role, three days a week, supports the platform engineering team by aiding product and data engineers, monitoring systems health, and troubleshooting outages.

Ideal candidates are curious about how technologies work, enjoy digging into problems, and are eager to learn from mistakes. A strong desire to understand architectures and anti-patterns is valued.