Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Core Infra & Observability

Xora Innovation; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Xora Innovation's Elemynt team is seeking a senior Platform Engineer to own cloud substrate, core services, and observability for scalable product deployments in a customer-diverse environment. You will design reproducible foundations and APIs ensuring secure, portable deployments across environments.

You will build container images, Helm charts, and IaC modules to enable safe ship-and-upgrade cycles, with a focus on reliability and performance at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in CS or related engineering field.
• 6+ years building and shipping production software with cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code on at least one major cloud.
• Experience designing and operating core backend services and APIs.
• Ownership of cloud deployment pipelines and reproducible rollouts.
• Hands-on observability: metrics, logs, traces with Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry.
• Strong software fundamentals with Go, Python, or Rust.
• Experience defining SLIs/SLOs and reliability-focused design.

Responsibilities

• Build and own cloud foundations: networking, IAM, Kubernetes, and IaC for all services.
• Design and build core platform services and internal APIs for reliable deployments.
• Own end-to-end cloud deployment: pipelines, versioned artifacts, staged releases, rollbacks.
• Stand up observability: metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts for quick diagnosis.
• Instrument SLIs and health signals so reliability is measurable.
• Keep foundations portable and reproducible across environments.
• Produce deployment-ready blocks: container images, Helm charts, IaC modules.
• Harden foundations: secrets, certificates, and network boundaries for security.

Skills

Go

Python

Rust

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS or related engineering field

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

ArgoCD

Flux

Job description

Xora Innovation's Elemynt team is seeking a senior Platform Engineer to own cloud substrate, core services, and observability for scalable product deployments in a customer-diverse environment. You will design reproducible foundations and APIs ensuring secure, portable deployments across environments.

You will build container images, Helm charts, and IaC modules to enable safe ship-and-upgrade cycles, with a focus on reliability and performance at scale.