Senior Platform Engineer

SanDisk; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

STI Plan

LTI Program

Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance

401(k)

Job summary

SanDisk in Irvine, CA is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build scalable internal platforms, tools, and automation for engineering teams. You will work across cloud and on‑prem environments, partnering with security and infra to reduce toil and improve delivery.

You will set technical direction, design reusable CI/CD frameworks, and implement agentic AI workflows with strong safeguards. Eligible for STI and LTI programs and a broad benefits package.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software or platform engineering experience with Python and production developer tools.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines or reusable workflow platforms at scale.
• APIs integration and automation that is testable, observable, and resilient to failures.
• Experience with AI- or LLM-based workflow automation or agentic systems.
• Strong security practices including least privilege, secrets management, and auditable automation.
• Proven ability to improve developer experience and drive cross-team platform capabilities.
• Strong communication and technical leadership, with mentoring ability.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and operate developer-facing tools and self-service workflows (CLIs, APIs, automation).
• Design and evolve CI/CD frameworks and workflows across GitHub Actions and platforms.
• Build Python integrations with source control, issue tracking, artifacts, releases, and infra services.
• Develop agentic AI workflows connecting approved models to internal data and tools.
• Ground AI results in approved sources and evaluate workflow quality and reliability.
• Apply safeguards to AI/automation workflows including least privilege and audit trails.
• Build security automation into developer workflows (vulnerability scanning, policy enforcement).
• Improve platform reliability with testing, logs, metrics, tracing, retries, idempotency, and rollback paths.
• Support hybrid cloud and on-prem infrastructure, CI runners, container platforms, AWS, Terraform-managed infra.
• Set platform standards, guide architectures across teams, mentor engineers, document decisions.

Skills

Python

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps tooling

Platform engineering

Security best practices

Mentoring engineers

Tools

GitHub Actions

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Grafana/Datadog

Job description

General Information

Job Name

Senior Platform Engineer

Country/Region

United States of America

State

California

City

Irvine

Work Location

Irvine Office

Work Mode

Employees work in a hybrid mode

Salary Range

$104,600.00 - $177,800.00

Exemption Status

Exempt

Business Function

DevOps Engineering

Employment Type

Full-time

Sandisk understands how people and businesses consume data and we relentlessly innovate to deliver solutions that enable today’s needs and tomorrow’s next big ideas. With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in Flash and advanced memory technologies, our solutions have become the beating heart of the digital world we’re living in and that we have the power to shape.

Sandisk meets people and businesses at the intersection of their aspirations and the moment, enabling them to keep moving and pushing possibility forward. We do this through the balance of our powerhouse manufacturing capabilities and our industry-leading portfolio of products that are recognized globally for innovation, performance and quality.

Sandisk has two facilities recognized by the World Economic Forum as part of the Global Lighthouse Network for advanced 4IR innovations. These facilities were also recognized as Sustainability Lighthouses for breakthroughs in efficient operations. With our global reach, we ensure the global supply chain has access to the Flash memory it needs to keep our world moving forward.

Description

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer with strong Python skills to build and scale the internal platforms, tools, and automation that help engineering teams deliver software safely and efficiently. This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, developer experience, CI/CD, and agentic AI workflow automation.

You will set technical direction and work hands-on to create reliable, secure, and usable solutions across cloud and on-prem environments. You will partner with engineering, security, and infrastructure teams to reduce toil, improve delivery, and make complex workflows easier to operate.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Architect, build, and operate developer-facing tools and self-service workflows, including CLIs, configuration generators, APIs, and automation.

• Design and evolve reusable CI/CD frameworks and workflows across GitHub Actions and related platforms, enabling consistent delivery across teams.

• Build reliable Python integrations with source control, issue tracking, artifact repositories, release systems, and infrastructure services.

• Design, build, and operate agentic AI workflows that connect approved models to internal knowledge and tools to improve support, incident investigation, and software delivery.

• Ground AI-generated results in approved sources and evaluate workflow quality, reliability, and failure modes.

• Apply safeguards to AI and automation workflows, including least-privilege access, secret protection, audit trails, and human approval before consequential actions.

• Build security automation into developer workflows, including vulnerability scanning and policy enforcement.

• Improve platform reliability and operability with testing, structured logs, metrics, tracing, retries, idempotency, dry-run modes, and clear recovery or rollback paths.

• Support hybrid cloud and on-prem infrastructure, including CI runners, container platforms, AWS resources, and Terraform-managed infrastructure.

• Set platform engineering standards, guide architecture across teams, mentor engineers, and communicate decisions through clear documentation.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required :

• 5+ years of software or platform engineering experience, including strong Python skills and experience building production developer tools or services.

• Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines or reusable workflow platforms at scale.

• Experience integrating systems through APIs and building automation that is testable, observable, and resilient to failures.

• Experience with AI- or LLM-based workflow automation or agentic systems, such as tool use, retrieval, or multi-step orchestration.

• Strong understanding of security best practices, including least privilege, secrets management, and auditable automation.

• Experience improving developer experience and working across teams to deliver broadly adopted platform capabilities.

• Strong communication and technical leadership skills, including the ability to mentor engineers and influence architecture beyond one team.

Preferred:

• Hands-on experience with n8n, MCP (Model Context Protocol), or similar workflow orchestration and tool-integration technologies.

• Experience building AI workflows with grounded retrieval, evaluations, observability, human-in-the-loop controls, or other production safeguards.

• Experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or other CI/CD platforms.

• Experience with hybrid cloud and on-prem environments, Kubernetes, self-hosted runners, or GitOps.

• AWS and Terraform; the engineer should be comfortable working with existing AWS resources and Terraform configurations.

• Familiarity with observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, or Datadog.

• Experience with additional languages such as Go or C/C++.

Compensation & Benefits

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.

• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.

• You will be eligible to participate in Sandisk's Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance. Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Sandisk's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan.

• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Additional Information

Sandisk is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf) poster.

Sandisk thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

Sandisk is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at [e-mail] to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.