Platform Engineer, DevX — Golden-Path EKS & AI

Front Door Defense; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 123,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

K2 Space in Los Angeles, CA is seeking a Platform Engineer (DevX) to design and maintain golden-path deployment patterns for Amazon EKS and AI-enabled workflows. You’ll enable secure, reliable apps with minimal friction for a diverse set of engineering teams.

The role focuses on developer experience, CI/CD gates, governance, observability, and scalable tooling to support AI-assisted development across the engineering ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience, plus 2+ years building developer tooling, platforms, or deployment patterns.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, TypeScript, Python, or C#.
• Hands-on experience deploying applications on Amazon EKS.
• Experience with CI/CD (GitHub Actions or GitLab CI) and disciplined Git workflows (branching, reviews, automated gates).
• Practical experience with AI-assisted development and a clear view of its benefits and pitfalls.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain golden-path deployment patterns for Amazon EKS, with built-in guardrails that get applications to production faster.
• Help drive secure, consistent AI adoption across software development, including guardrails, governance, observability, and operational support for AI-assisted workflows.
• Build automated policies and CI/CD gates that enforce code quality, test coverage, and safe deployments.
• Integrate end-to-end monitoring, alerting, and SLOs into the platform.
• Track performance and cost (latency budgets, cross-AZ transfer, IP consumption, load balancer efficiency) and act on anomalies.
• Write approachable docs and diagnostics, such as guides, diagrams, and 'why can't this connect?' flows, that shorten support loops.
• Run proofs of concept on new AI platforms, models, and developer experience tools.
• Learn the manufacturing domain and make complex concerns like service identity and secure communication simple for platform users.

Skills

Go

TypeScript

Python

C#

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Amazon EKS

CI/CD (GitHub Actions or GitLab CI)

Git workflows

Job description

K2 Space in Los Angeles, CA is seeking a Platform Engineer (DevX) to design and maintain golden-path deployment patterns for Amazon EKS and AI-enabled workflows. You’ll enable secure, reliable apps with minimal friction for a diverse set of engineering teams.

The role focuses on developer experience, CI/CD gates, governance, observability, and scalable tooling to support AI-assisted development across the engineering ecosystem.