Remote Brazil: Staff Platform Engineer for Cloud Platform

Wellhub; United States; Remote; USD 49,000 - 87,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid/Remote options

Home office reimbursement

Paid time off & parental leave

Career growth & learning opportunities

Job summary

Wellhub is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team in Brazil. This remote role lets you work from anywhere within Brazil, contributing to a global, secure, scalable, and cost-efficient infrastructure that enables autonomous product development.

You will work with cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, Crossplane, Kafka, AWS, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Vault, Istio, Prometheus, Grafana) and can code in Go or Python to build and maintain tools.

Qualifications

• Proven technical expertise in AWS cloud services, Kubernetes, and software engineering.
• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes and its ecosystem; CNCF Kubernetes Certifications (CKA/CKS/CKAD) are a plus.
• Experience with operator-managed Infrastructure as Code, preferably crossplane or Kubernetes Operators.
• Ability to write software for production environments.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a track record of solving complex problems.
• Collaborative and learning-driven mindset; strong communication in English and Portuguese.

Responsibilities

• Help build a global, secure, scalable, and cost-effective Cloud platform using Kubernetes in AWS.
• Develop and evolve Kubernetes operators and other cloud-native automation in Kubernetes.
• Build products and tools enabling engineering teams to create and maintain their cloud resources autonomously.
• Help ensure security and compliance by delivering secure products and implementing DevSecOps integrations.
• Improve observability, reliability, and cost awareness.
• Support engineering teams in the products and tools usage.
• Build and maintain a modern CI/CD set of tools and services.
• Keep all Kubernetes clusters highly available and reliable.
• Contribute to product documentation (guides, configurations, operations, troubleshooting).
• Participate in defining standards, RFCs, guidelines, and best practices.

Skills

AWS cloud services

Kubernetes

Software engineering

Observability

DevSecOps

Problem solving

Collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

Crossplane

Kafka

AWS

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

HashiCorp Vault

Istio

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Wellhub is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team in Brazil. This remote role lets you work from anywhere within Brazil, contributing to a global, secure, scalable, and cost-efficient infrastructure that enables autonomous product development.

You will work with cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, Crossplane, Kafka, AWS, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Vault, Istio, Prometheus, Grafana) and can code in Go or Python to build and maintain tools.