Platform Engineer

Stanford Climate Ventures; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Stanford Climate Ventures is seeking a Platform Engineer to build and operate the shared infrastructure that our product teams rely on. You will deliver reliable, secure, and well‑documented platform services and drive adoption across engineering teams.

You will partner with cybersecurity, Azure governance, and internal developers to create self‑service capabilities, scalable tooling, and secure end‑to‑end delivery. Strong cloud, automation, and communication skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• 3–6+ years of software development, platform or cloud engineering.
• Writing and deploying infrastructure as code in an automated manner.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and secrets‑free authentication patterns (OIDC, managed identity).
• Design systems with a security‑first mindset: private ingress, least‑privilege IAM, no long‑lived credentials.
• Writing and consuming APIs.
• Leveraging AI Tools to enhance productivity.
• Strong written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Platform Hosting & Provisioning: Build and operate shared Azure infrastructure for teams to consume, including hosting with Container Apps, private networking, managed identity, OIDC trust federation, and secrets‑free CI/CD pipelines within the organization’s governed Azure environment.
• Develop and maintain self‑service and auto‑provisioning tooling so teams can quickly go from a new repository to a live, governed service.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

OIDC / identity federation

Security‑first design

APIs

AI Tools (Claude Code)

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science

Tools

Terraform

Azure

API gateway

Job description

The Platform Engineer is responsible for building, operating, and improving the shared infrastructure and tooling that Fervo's internal teams use to deliver software. This role focuses on delivering reliable, secure, and well-documented platform services.

This individual will work closely with engineering teams across the organization, cybersecurity partners, and the team that owns Fervo's governed Azure environment to build platform capabilities that teams adopt because they make delivery faster. Success in this role requires strong hands‑on cloud and automation expertise and the ability to turn shared platform needs into self‑service capabilities.

Requirements

Responsibilities

Platform Hosting & Provisioning

• Build and operate shared Azure infrastructure for teams to consume, including hosting with Container Apps, private networking, managed identity, OIDC trust federation, and secrets‑free CI/CD pipelines within the organization’s governed Azure environment.
• Develop and maintain self‑service and auto‑provisioning tooling so teams can quickly go from a new repository to a live, governed, service.

Shared Platform Services

• Build and operate the core, shared infrastructure that teams would otherwise rebuild for every project. Examples include an API gateway, a service catalog, and service discovery, reducing the cognitive load and time teams spend on undifferentiated work.
• Enable core capabilities to be discoverable and consumable by both engineers and AI agents.

Security & Compliance

• Embed security from day one: private ingress, least‑privilege IAM, and security scanning.
• Maintain audit trails aligned to NERC CIP, OCED, and SOX ITGC requirements.

Adoption & Measurement

• Work directly with teams across the organization to understand what they're building, identify where the platform is creating friction, and iterate on it.
• Track time‑to‑deploy, adoption, cost attribution, and code review patterns, treating them as feedback signals, not reporting artifacts.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science (or equivalent experience).
• 3–6+ years of experience in software development, platform engineering, or cloud engineering.
• Writing and deploying infrastructure as code in an automated manner.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and secrets‑free authentication patterns (OIDC, managed identity, workload identity federation).
• Able to design systems with a security‑first mindset: private ingress, least‑privilege IAM, no long‑lived credentials.
• Writing and consuming APIs.
• Leveraging AI Tools such as Claude Code to enhance productivity.
• Strong written and verbal communication.

Preferred

• Experience with Model Context Protocol.
• Familiarity with platform engineering principles: internal developer platforms, golden paths, service catalogs.
• Experience building developer‑facing tooling: scaffolders, CLI tools, bootstrappers.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks relevant to energy infrastructure: NERC CIP, OCED, SOX ITGC.
• Event driven architecture.