Platform Engineer

Pano AI; United States; On-site; USD 146,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health coverage

Paid time off

Job summary

Pano AI is seeking a Platform Engineer to drive scalable, secure, and observable infrastructure across the organization. You will own major projects, write code, and shape operational processes in a startup environment.

Collaboration, creativity, and clear communication are key as you help remove barriers to efficient delivery. You will work on designing and maintaining platforms, improving release processes, and contributing to coding standards while supporting production systems in a

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in a fast-paced SaaS or a similar business environment.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience supporting production systems as a Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) or a DevOps Engineer.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with cloud services and technologies (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure
• Support and optimize production systems as a Platform Engineer and development workflows as a DevOps Engineer
• Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles to automate provisioning, configuration, and deployment processes
• Improve the release process through robust CI/CD pipelines to enhance software delivery efficiency
• Provide expertise in Cloud services and infrastructure, particularly in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues related to infrastructure and deployment
• Actively contribute to evolving coding standards and best practices within the development team
• Create run-books, metrics, and dashboards
• Participate in on-call rotation to respond to and triage production issues

Skills

SaaS experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Effective communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

Puppet

GCP

AWS

Azure

Job description

The Role

For the Platform Engineer role, we’re looking for somebody who will drive major projects in how we scale, secure, and monitor our systems and services throughout the entire organization. At Pano, we strongly believe in allowing team members to take ownership of what they do, and our approach to problem‑solving relies heavily on creativity, communication, and collaboration.

We’re running large systems at scale and have a growing infrastructure footprint, so we are looking for an experienced engineer to run, develop, and enhance our platform. Someone with the wisdom and experience to build mature operational processes for the future but also comfortable with rolling up their sleeves, writing code, and building systems in a startup environment. Someone passionate about improving the development experience for engineers and providing guidance on what kinds of tools and workflows will remove barriers to get things done.

What you’ll do

• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure
• Support and optimize production systems as a Platform Engineer and development workflows as a DevOps Engineer
• Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles to automate provisioning, configuration, and deployment processes
• Improve the release process through robust CI/CD pipelines to enhance software delivery efficiency
• Provide expertise in Cloud services and infrastructure, particularly in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues related to infrastructure and deployment
• Actively contribute to evolving coding standards and best practices within the development team
• Create run‑books, metrics, and dashboards
• Participate in on‑call rotation to respond to and triage production issues

What you’ll bring

• 5+ years of professional experience in a fast‑paced SaaS or a similar business environment
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience supporting production systems as a Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) or a DevOps Engineer
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience with cloud services and technologies (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and methodologies (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, Puppet, etc.)
• Proven ability to manage, troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues in distributed systems
• Ability to communicate effectively within the team and across the organization while sharing insights and updates and collaborating to achieve project goals
• Preferred skills:
• Preference for someone in the Pacific / Mountain time zone

Compensation

$146K – $220K

Final compensation for regular full‑time employees is determined by a variety of factors, including job‑related qualifications, education, experience, skills, knowledge, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, regular full‑time roles are eligible for equity. Benefits are tailored to local market standards and statutory requirements in the employee’s country of employment, and may include health coverage, retirement or pension contributions, and paid time off. Specific benefit details will be shared during the interview process.