Platform Engineer →

Nextlex; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Nextlex is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain core services that empower engineering teams to ship features rapidly while ensuring reliability, security, and scalability across the stack.

You will own internal platform tooling, service mesh configurations, multi-cloud infrastructure, and automation for provisioning, monitoring, and incident response, collaborating with product engineering to improve deployment velocity and system resilience.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or SRE roles.
• Strong expertise with Kubernetes, Terraform, and at least one major cloud provider (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or similar systems programming languages.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, networking, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain internal platform tooling, SDKs, and developer experience infrastructure.
• Design scalable service architectures and manage service mesh, API gateways, and inter-service communication.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and incident response workflows.
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to improve deployment velocity and system reliability.

Skills

Go

Python

Distributed systems

Networking

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Design, build, and maintain the foundational platform services that Nextlex engineering teams depend on. This role ensures developers can ship features rapidly while maintaining reliability, security, and scalability across the entire infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain internal platform tooling, SDKs, and developer experience infrastructure.
• Design scalable service architectures and manage service mesh, API gateways, and inter-service communication.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and incident response workflows.
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to improve deployment velocity and system reliability.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or SRE roles.
• Strong expertise with Kubernetes, Terraform, and at least one major cloud provider (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or similar systems programming languages.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, networking, and observability.

Preferred Experience

• Experience building internal developer platforms or PaaS solutions.
• Knowledge of service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd).
• Experience with multi-tenant architectures and data isolation strategies.