Platform Reliability Engineer – Kubernetes & Next.js

Energy Innovation Corp; West Covina (CA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental plan

Vision plan

Annual bonuses tied to teamPerformance

Job summary

Costco is seeking a Civil Engineer in West Covina, CA to push our platform forward. You will bring calm, clear communication, and a strong drive to ship impactful changes.

Expect close collaboration across teams, leveraging Next.js and Kubernetes to optimize architecture and performance. The role emphasizes leadership, data-driven storytelling, and delivering meaningful results while balancing on-call pressures and stakeholder expectations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technology experience near West Covina, CA
• Ability to deliver bad news clearly and on time
• Strong Next.js depth and Kubernetes curiosity
• Proven track record of shipping initiatives
• Proven leadership experience guiding mid-level initiatives
• Storytelling to turn data into a decision

Responsibilities

• Identify bottlenecks and propose architectural improvements proactively
• Profile Microservices memory use and chase down leaks crashing West Covina nodes
• Optimize application performance, latency, and resource utilization at scale
• Turn Costco's Agile on-call noise into alerts that actually mean something
• Wrangle Kafka config across environments so West Covina staging mirrors production
• Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and Next.js libraries

Skills

Next.js

Kubernetes

Leadership

Storytelling

Shipping initiatives

Tools

Next.js

Kubernetes

Job description

Costco is seeking a Civil Engineer in West Covina, CA to push our platform forward. You will bring calm, clear communication, and a strong drive to ship impactful changes.

Expect close collaboration across teams, leveraging Next.js and Kubernetes to optimize architecture and performance. The role emphasizes leadership, data-driven storytelling, and delivering meaningful results while balancing on-call pressures and stakeholder expectations.