Platform Engineer: Scalable Cloud Infra & Reliability

Chroma Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Chroma Inc. is building a world-class developer cloud and seeks a backend/infrastructure engineer to contribute to the design, operation, and continuous improvement of its distributed systems in production.

You will work on services written in Python, Rust, or Go, using Kubernetes and Helm, and manage IaC with Terraform or Pulumi. Monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, and Honeycomb will be part of daily practice, along with building and maintaining deployment pipelines.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of production Python, Rust, or Go services
• Experience with Kubernetes, including CRDs, Operators, and Helm
• Experience with Terraform or Pulumi for IaC
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Honeycomb)
• Experience building, maintaining, and operating build, test, and deployment pipelines
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience with production distributed systems and databases
• Passion for reliable, scalable, high-performance systems

Responsibilities

• Contribute to design, operation, and improvement of Chroma's developer cloud
• Work on backend and infrastructure projects to improve reliability and performance
• Collaborate across teams to shape the distributed systems stack

Skills

Python

Rust

Go

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Tools

Helm

Terraform

Pulumi

Prometheus

Grafana

Jaeger

Honeycomb

Job description

Chroma Inc. is building a world-class developer cloud and seeks a backend/infrastructure engineer to contribute to the design, operation, and continuous improvement of its distributed systems in production.

You will work on services written in Python, Rust, or Go, using Kubernetes and Helm, and manage IaC with Terraform or Pulumi. Monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, and Honeycomb will be part of daily practice, along with building and maintaining deployment pipelines.