Remote Platform Engineer: Scale Kubernetes & Cloud Infra

United States Digital Space LLC

United States

Remote

USD 139,000 - 204,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

the company is a remote-first engineering organization seeking a Platform Engineering Software Engineer (L3) to design, deploy, and operate massive-scale distributed systems across AWS and Azure. You will run Kubernetes beyond managed services, implement Terraform-based infrastructure, and contribute to reliability and observability across data pipelines.

You will collaborate with product management and technical leadership, participate in architectural reviews, and mentor junior engineers while

Qualifications

4+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating backend services at scale using Kubernetes.
Experience with CAPI, EKS and zero-downtime Kubernetes cluster upgrades.
Practical experience with AI-assisted development tools to accelerate code generation and debugging workflows.
Strong Go, Shell, Terraform, and YAML skills.
Deep experience deploying workloads in AWS or Azure and container networking.
Proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure as code and environment parity.
Understanding of distributed datastores, caching, and event streaming (Kafka or similar).
Background in CS fundamentals and building self-healing cloud architectures.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate services and automations to manage Kubernetes clusters at scale.
Drive rigorous code reviews and maintainable patterns with strong testing standards.
Manage cloud configurations across AWS and Azure using Infrastructure as Code.
Enhance observability with standardized metrics, alerts, and tracing.
Advocate for clean architecture, identify tech debt, and prevent SPOFs.
Mentor and lead junior engineers, guiding technical sprint planning.