Platform Engineer: Cloud, AWS & Kubernetes

Socket.dev; Boulder (CO); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Name Your Satellite Program (NYSP)

Launch Attendance

Generous Time Off Policy

Education Assistance Program

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Family Leave

Fitness Reimbursement

Employee Referral Program

Healthy snacks & beverages in every оф

Job summary

Spire Global is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure / Platform Engineer to support our internal developer platform built on AWS. This hands-on role focuses on platform engineering, cloud operations, observability, and developer experience.

You will work across infrastructure, security, IT, and software teams to improve platform reliability, cost efficiency, and developer productivity. The role requires 2–3+ years in cloud infrastructure or similar roles, with strong AWS/EKS experience.

Qualifications

• 2–3+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or a similar role.
• Strong experience with AWS and Kubernetes, especially EKS.
• Familiarity with GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
• Comfortable troubleshooting distributed systems and production issues.
• Working knowledge of observability tooling and concepts such as metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
• Ability to write code or libraries in one or more general-purpose languages to support developer workflows.
• Good communication skills and a customer-focused mindset.
• Comfortable collaborating frequently with a variety of infrastructure, IT, security and application teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead analysis of AWS spend across platform-owned infrastructure and developer workloads.
• Identify cost optimization opportunities and implement changes to reduce spend while preserving reliability and developer experience.
• Support migration of workloads onto our internal developer platform.
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve platform issues raised by internal customers.
• Perform regular maintenance, upgrades, and improvements across platform services and tooling.
• Help build and maintain code libraries, templates, and integrations for easier instrumentation and observability.
• Work with platform observability and delivery tooling across AWS EKS, VPC/subnets, networking, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Grafana, OpenSearch, and related tools.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

GitOps workflows

Observability basics

Programming for dev workflows

Communication skills

Tools

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Grafana

OpenSearch

Karpenter

Calico

Gatekeeper

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Spire Global is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure / Platform Engineer to support our internal developer platform built on AWS. This hands-on role focuses on platform engineering, cloud operations, observability, and developer experience.

You will work across infrastructure, security, IT, and software teams to improve platform reliability, cost efficiency, and developer productivity. The role requires 2–3+ years in cloud infrastructure or similar roles, with strong AWS/EKS experience.