Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - GCP, Scale Infra & Lead

O'Reilly Auto Parts; Headquarters (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive wages

PTO

Stock purchase

401k contributions

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Tuition assistance

Career growth

Job summary

O’Reilly Auto Parts seeks a Principal Platform Engineer to lead broad infrastructure and information systems design, ensuring stability and scalability to meet business needs. You will document current and target architectures, develop deployment plans, and drive engineering processes across teams.

The role emphasizes leadership, strategic planning, and hands-on collaboration with security and architecture teams to deliver reliable, cost-effective platforms.

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree or equivalent level of experience in a relevant field.
• 6–12 years of general and domain experience.
• 2–5 years of managerial experience leading platform teams.

Responsibilities

• Direct and oversee infrastructure developments to meet business needs.
• Advance technology architectures to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
• Develop project stories and lead implementation of new capabilities.
• Document current and target architectures and migration plans.
• Support security by addressing incidents and vulnerabilities.
• Mentor engineers and drive continuous improvement of processes.

Skills

Infrastructure leadership

Cloud & on-prem architectures

Team development

Security incident response

Automation tooling

Education

Master’s Degree or Equivalent Level of Experience

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

Terraform

Bash

PowerShell

Python

CI/CD tooling

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

O’Reilly Auto Parts seeks a Principal Platform Engineer to lead broad infrastructure and information systems design, ensuring stability and scalability to meet business needs. You will document current and target architectures, develop deployment plans, and drive engineering processes across teams.

The role emphasizes leadership, strategic planning, and hands-on collaboration with security and architecture teams to deliver reliable, cost-effective platforms.