Lead Platform Engineer

stitchfix; United States; Remote; USD 113,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Job summary

Stitch Fix is seeking a senior platform engineer to own and operate cloud infrastructure and internal developer tools at scale. You will drive ambiguous work from design to production, improve reliability, and guide developers to work more efficiently.

You will lead platform initiatives, develop IaC, container, and CI/CD practices, and explore AI-assisted solutions for internal workflows, while mentoring less experienced engineers.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of software development and infra experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer science.
• Production experience with AWS and Kubernetes.
• Ability to independently scope and execute complex technical work.
• Experience operating systems at scale and understanding their failure modes.
• Strong interest in improving the developer experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate major components of an internal platform-as-a-service.
• Lead complex infrastructure initiatives with limited oversight, partnering with platform and application engineers.
• Develop tools and practices that improve developer workflows, deployment reliability, and daily productivity.
• Apply and improve infrastructure-as-code, container, and CI/CD practices.
• Explore AI-assisted engineering and language-model solutions for internal support and operational workflows.
• Improve operations and provide technical guidance to less experienced engineers.

Skills

5+ years infra experience

Cloud architecture

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD practices

Developer experience focus

Infra as code

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or CS

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

CircleCI

Ruby

Go

Python

Job description

Role overview

Own and operate cloud infrastructure and internal developer tools that help software teams build, deploy, and support services with less friction. This senior platform engineering role involves driving ambiguous infrastructure work from design into production, improving reliability, and helping developers work effectively at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate major components of an internal platform-as-a-service.
• Lead complex infrastructure initiatives with limited oversight, partnering with platform and application engineers.
• Develop tools and practices that improve developer workflows, deployment reliability, and daily productivity.
• Apply and improve infrastructure-as-code, container, and CI/CD practices.
• Explore AI-assisted engineering and language-model solutions for internal support and operational workflows.
• Improve operations and provide technical guidance to less experienced engineers.

Requirements

• Five or more years of software development and infrastructure experience with substantial contributions.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer science.
• Production experience with AWS and Kubernetes orchestration.
• Ability to independently scope and execute complex technical work.
• Experience operating systems at scale and understanding their failure modes.
• Strong interest in improving the developer experience and empathy for software developers.

Nice to have

Exposure to infrastructure tools and languages such as Terraform or Pulumi, CircleCI, Ruby, Go, or Python is useful; experience with every tool is not expected.

Benefits and work setup

The role includes salary, benefits, and equity, with U.S. salary listed at $113,300–$189,000 depending on location and qualifications.

• Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage.