Senior Edge Platform Engineer — Cloud Infra, Equity

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

401(k) with company match

Flexible Paid Time Off

Equity Participation Opportunities

Professional Development Resources

Wellness Benefits

Flexible Work Environment

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to lead Edge Platform & Infrastructure. Culver City, CA-based role with ownership of platform architecture, cloud workloads, and automation across enterprise-scale systems.

You will drive engineering standards, mentor engineers, and shape platform strategy while delivering reliable, scalable solutions in a fast-growing environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production-grade applications and services.
• 5+ years in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, cloud operations, or distributed systems in a senior-level role.
• Strong experience designing, deploying, and operating workloads within public cloud environments (AWS preferred).
• Deep understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience implementing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language used for backend services, automation, or systems development.
• Experience supporting distributed systems that span both cloud and customer-managed environments.
• Hands-on expertise with monitoring, observability, logging, and performance analysis tools.
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills across complex production systems.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• 35% Platform & Systems Engineering.
• 30% Cloud Infrastructure & Operations.
• 20% Reliability, Monitoring & Performance Engineering.
• 15% Software Development & Automation
• 70% Hands-On Engineering.
• 15% Architecture, Technical Planning & Platform Strategy.
• 15% Cross-Functional Collaboration, Mentorship & Technical Leadership

Skills

Software engineering

Platform engineering

Cloud operations

Docker & Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Backend development

Distributed systems

Monitoring & observability

Root cause analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to lead Edge Platform & Infrastructure. Culver City, CA-based role with ownership of platform architecture, cloud workloads, and automation across enterprise-scale systems.

You will drive engineering standards, mentor engineers, and shape platform strategy while delivering reliable, scalable solutions in a fast-growing environment.