Platform Engineer: CI/CD, Cloud & Developer Experience (Remote)

Externo; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Externo is seeking a DevOps/Platform Engineer to build and operate the internal platform and delivery pipelines that empower engineering teams to ship safely and quickly. This is a full-time, remote role open to candidates worldwide.

You will design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage the production platform on cloud, improve observability and incident response, and promote automation and infrastructure-as-code practices to boost developer productivity.

Qualifications

• Experience operating production infrastructure on a public cloud provider.
• Strong background with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and container-based workloads.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response.
• A platform mindset focused on developer experience, safety, and speed.
• Comfort balancing reliability work with enabling frequent, low-risk releases.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and developer-facing tooling
• Operate and evolve the internal platform that hosts production workloads
• Improve observability, incident response, and overall reliability practices
• Partner with product engineering teams to make deployment and operability easier
• Champion automation, infrastructure as code, and engineering productivity across the organization

Skills

Platform mindset

Developer experience

Reliability focus

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Infrastructure as Code

Container workloads

Job description

Externo is seeking a DevOps/Platform Engineer to build and operate the internal platform and delivery pipelines that empower engineering teams to ship safely and quickly. This is a full-time, remote role open to candidates worldwide.

You will design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage the production platform on cloud, improve observability and incident response, and promote automation and infrastructure-as-code practices to boost developer productivity.