Platform Engineer, Cloud & Infra | Scalable Systems

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Sift, a data infrastructure platform for hardware engineering teams, seeks an experienced Platform Engineer to design and operate scalable cloud and on‑prem infrastructure. You will help optimize performance, reliability, and cost while collaborating across product and engineering functions.

In this early-stage startup, you’ll own critical infrastructure initiatives, implement robust monitoring, and drive automation across deployment pipelines using Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform/CDK.

Qualifications

• 3+ years distributed systems experience focusing on designing and managing cloud-based environments.
• Hands-on experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and container orchestration platforms.
• Passion for building and operating developer productivity tools, frameworks, and other aspects of platform engineering.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems.
• Knowledge of automated testing best practices and frameworks in distributed systems.
• You are pragmatic, solution-oriented and prefer collaboration across functions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, resilient infrastructure solutions to support our growing platform and customer base.
• Collaborate with software engineers to optimize application performance and reliability.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to ensure proactive identification and resolution of issues.
• Automate deployment processes and streamline infrastructure management using modern DevOps tools and methodologies.
• Evolve our backend architecture/infrastructure for both cloud and on-premise deployments.
• Work with the team to set and prioritize our roadmap to maximize customer impact.
• Lead initiatives to improve infrastructure reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Containerization

CI/CD

Go/Java/React/TypeScript

Terraform/CDK

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform/CDK

Job description

Sift, a data infrastructure platform for hardware engineering teams, seeks an experienced Platform Engineer to design and operate scalable cloud and on‑prem infrastructure. You will help optimize performance, reliability, and cost while collaborating across product and engineering functions.

In this early-stage startup, you’ll own critical infrastructure initiatives, implement robust monitoring, and drive automation across deployment pipelines using Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform/CDK.