Remote Staff Platform Engineer - GitOps, Kubernetes & Scale

Cortex; New York (NY); On-site; USD 250,000 - 285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

401k plan

Learning stipend

Perks stipend

Pet Insurance

Job summary

Cortex is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to define the architecture of its infrastructure and platform. You will work with engineering leadership and product to keep deployments scalable, reliable, and secure—from the deploy pipeline to multi-tenant isolation and FedRAMP-class considerations for government customers.

You will lead the path to GitOps (Argo), ensure database stability, and build foundations for encryption, authentication, and secure data flow.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience designing, operating, and scaling high-performance production systems.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
• Strong database proficiency (Postgres) with experience in performance, availability, and migrations at scale.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture and best practices for the platform and infrastructure layer the product is built on.
• Own the deploy pipeline and lead the move to a GitOps model (Argo) for fast, safe releases.
• Design and harden multi-tenant isolation and blast-radius protection for top-tier customers.
• Lead database stabilization and the platform work behind performance, availability, and safe migrations.
• Build the infrastructure foundations for compliance-heavy deployments (encryption, authentication, boundary and data-flow design).
• Set the standard for observability, on-call, and operational readiness across engineering.
• Collaborate with leadership and product to translate platform capabilities into customer-facing offerings.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud architecture

Security mindset

Reliability engineering

Multi-tenant design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

ArgoCD

Job description

Cortex is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to define the architecture of its infrastructure and platform. You will work with engineering leadership and product to keep deployments scalable, reliable, and secure—from the deploy pipeline to multi-tenant isolation and FedRAMP-class considerations for government customers.

You will lead the path to GitOps (Argo), ensure database stability, and build foundations for encryption, authentication, and secure data flow.