Remote Platform Reliability Engineer

Harakumo; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Harakumo is seeking a systems-focused engineer to keep a developer cloud platform reliable, responsive, and cost-efficient as user demand grows. You’ll own infrastructure that builds and serves applications, improving capacity, observability, data operations, and recovery practices across the platform.

You will operate the deployment pipeline, plan capacity, implement health checks, monitor costs, and validate backup procedures, all while collaborating with teams across time zones.

Qualifications

• Production experience operating infrastructure such as containers, CDNs or edge platforms, DNS, and TLS.

Responsibilities

• Operate the deployment pipeline and application runners, including support for free-tier applications that sleep and wake.
• Plan capacity for databases, container slots, and shared control-plane services before demand exceeds available resources.
• Build useful logs, uptime alerts, and health checks for hosted applications and functions.
• Track and control infrastructure costs as the platform scales.
• Test backup and recovery procedures through restore drills.

Skills

Containers

CDNs

Edge platforms

DNS

TLS

Job description

Harakumo is seeking a systems-focused engineer to keep a developer cloud platform reliable, responsive, and cost-efficient as user demand grows. You’ll own infrastructure that builds and serves applications, improving capacity, observability, data operations, and recovery practices across the platform.

You will operate the deployment pipeline, plan capacity, implement health checks, monitor costs, and validate backup procedures, all while collaborating with teams across time zones.