Platform Engineer: Build & Scale Internal Developer Platform

Sweetwater; Fort Wayne (IN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Sweetwater, the nation’s #1 online retailer of pro audio gear, seeks a Platform Engineer to build and maintain our internal developer platform and infrastructure tooling. You will hands-on code, review AI-assisted output, and help scale Kubernetes on GCP while driving reliability across engineering teams.

You’ll work with a team to improve automation, incident response, and platform health, ensuring secure, scalable operations and continuous delivery across the business.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in TypeScript, Go, Python or similar languages.
• Experience building/operating cloud-scale Kubernetes in production.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize cloud infrastructure (GKE on GCP) for scale and reliability.
• Manage cloud networking (VPC, firewall, service mesh) for enterprise ops.
• Reduce toil via infrastructure automation and deployment processes.
• Lead incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement.
• Write, test, and ship code for the internal developer platform with AI tools.
• Conduct thorough code reviews, including AI-generated code for correctness and security.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering Manager and Tech Lead on sprint goals.
• Identify platform health improvements and share process improvements.

Skills

TypeScript

Golang

Python

Kubernetes

Platform engineering

LLM tooling

IaC (Terraform)

CI/CD (GitLab)

AI coding assistants

Tools

Terraform

GitLab

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Sweetwater, the nation’s #1 online retailer of pro audio gear, seeks a Platform Engineer to build and maintain our internal developer platform and infrastructure tooling. You will hands-on code, review AI-assisted output, and help scale Kubernetes on GCP while driving reliability across engineering teams.

You’ll work with a team to improve automation, incident response, and platform health, ensuring secure, scalable operations and continuous delivery across the business.