Platform Engineer II — Observability & Cloud Infra

UNAVAILABLE; Simi Hills (CA); Hybrid; USD 73,150 - 107,744; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K matching

Wellness programs

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Hybrid work arrangements

Employee Referral Program

Annual recognition awards

Parental bonding leave

Backup care options

Employee discount program

Job summary

CJ Engineering is seeking a Software Engineer 2 on the EngExp platform to run and improve CJ's production systems across AWS regions. This hands-on role focuses on observability, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and security, with an emphasis on end-to-end delivery.

You'll work in a hybrid environment, three days in the office, collaborating with senior engineers to ship well-scoped platform work, write infrastructure-as-code, and automate recurring requests.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Comfortable in the terminal and reading YAML, Terraform, or similar declarative config
• Some exposure to cloud (AWS or equivalent) and containers - production Kubernetes experience is a plus
• Genuine interest in operating real systems - especially observability - and growing deep in them
• Willing to learn how systems fail and to ask questions when something looks off
• Effective communication; enjoys pair programming and code review

Responsibilities

• Pick up well-scoped platform work end to end
• Build and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines and GitOps delivery through ArgoCD
• Write and review infrastructure-as-code with Terraform for AWS resources
• Add and tune observability - Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, Alertmanager rules
• Help fulfill and automate recurring requests (ingress, DNS, service accounts, IAM roles)
• Help investigate platform incidents and document learnings
• Learn to recognize common failure modes and escalate early

Skills

Observability

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

Python

Bash

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Nexus

Vault

Docker

ArgoCD

GitLab

Job description

CJ Engineering is seeking a Software Engineer 2 on the EngExp platform to run and improve CJ's production systems across AWS regions. This hands-on role focuses on observability, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and security, with an emphasis on end-to-end delivery.

You'll work in a hybrid environment, three days in the office, collaborating with senior engineers to ship well-scoped platform work, write infrastructure-as-code, and automate recurring requests.