Platform Engineer II — Observability & Cloud Infra Hybrid

Commission Junction LLC; Santa Barbara (CA); Hybrid; USD 73,000 - 108,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K matching

Wellness programs

Medical, dental, and vision

Flexible time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

CJ Engineering in Santa Barbara is seeking a Software Engineer 2 to help run and improve CJ's production platform across AWS regions. You’ll work across Kubernetes clusters, observability stacks, CI/CD pipelines, and secure access systems, collaborating with senior engineers to ship end-to-end platform solutions.

You will learn to recognize failure modes, automate recurring requests, and contribute to a culture of engineering excellence, pair programming, and code reviews.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering.
• 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.
• Genuine interest in operating real systems 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

• Deliver 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 through Prometheus metrics and Grafana dashboards.
• Automate recurring requests (ingress, DNS, service accounts, IAM roles).
• Investigate platform incidents and document learnings.
• Grow depth in at least one owned system.

Skills

Observability

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

CI/CD

ArgoCD

Go/Python/Bash

Pair programming

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

GitLab CI/CD

Nexus

Terraform

ArgoCD

Job description

CJ Engineering in Santa Barbara is seeking a Software Engineer 2 to help run and improve CJ's production platform across AWS regions. You’ll work across Kubernetes clusters, observability stacks, CI/CD pipelines, and secure access systems, collaborating with senior engineers to ship end-to-end platform solutions.

You will learn to recognize failure modes, automate recurring requests, and contribute to a culture of engineering excellence, pair programming, and code reviews.