Senior Platform Engineer

Productiv; Palo Alto (CA); Remote; USD 182,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in SaaS management is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to enhance their infrastructure team. This role involves designing resilient systems and leading transitions to modern cloud practices, ensuring efficient operations and collaboration across departments. Ideal candidates should possess strong AWS skills and thrive in cloud-native environments, contributing to a culture of reliability and growth.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401K plan

Mental health support

Telecommunications subsidies

Commuter benefits

Parental leave policies

Qualifications

• 5+ years in infrastructure or DevOps roles, strong AWS focus.
• Experience with containerized applications and cloud architecture.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure.
• Lead observability and migration initiatives.
• Champion infrastructure as code practices.

Skills

AWS expertise

Cloud-native infrastructure

Automation

Infrastructure as Code

Observability

Troubleshooting skills

Tools

Terraform

DataDog

AWS CDK

CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI)

Job description

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About Productiv:

Productiv started with a vision to transform the way enterprises manage and optimize their software portfolios. With a focus on driving efficiency and transparency in IT, Procurement, and Finance departments, we're revolutionizing SaaS management. At Productiv, we believe in enabling companies to make data-driven decisions that propel growth and foster innovation.

About Productiv:

Productiv started with a vision to transform the way enterprises manage and optimize their software portfolios. With a focus on driving efficiency and transparency in IT, Procurement, and Finance departments, we're revolutionizing SaaS management. At Productiv, we believe in enabling companies to make data-driven decisions that propel growth and foster innovation.

What you'll do:

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our growing infrastructure team. As an early member of the team, you'll play a critical role in designing and delivering resilient, scalable systems that power our product.

You'll take ownership of major initiatives—like improving monitoring, leading our transition from CDK to Terraform, and shaping our long-term infrastructure strategy. This role is perfect for someone who's passionate about cloud-native infrastructure, automation, and creating systems that operate reliably at scale.

Your Responsibilities:

• Design & Deliver Scalable Infrastructure: Build and maintain highly available, secure, and cost-effective infrastructure with a focus on long-term scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Lead Observability Initiatives: Implement, maintain, and evolve our observability stack including logging, alerting, and monitoring. Drive migrations from legacy tools like AWS CloudWatch to best-in-class platforms such as DataDog, Honeycomb, or Kloudfuse.
• Champion Infrastructure as Code: Lead the transition from AWS CDK to Terraform, ensuring clean, modular, and version-controlled infrastructure deployment practices.
• Optimize System Performance: Continuously assess and improve system design and operational practices to ensure efficiency and uptime across the board.
• Uplevel Team Standards: Identify process gaps and contribute to the evolution of infrastructure engineering practices and documentation.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Engage with product, engineering, and security stakeholders to ensure infrastructure meets technical and business needs.
  
  

Your Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure or DevOps roles, with a strong focus on AWS.
• Infrastructure & Systems Expertise: Deep understanding of server, storage, and network virtualization. Experienced in designing fault-tolerant, containerized applications using cloud-native patterns and components.
• Cloud Fluency: Hands-on expertise with AWS services and cloud architecture. Capable of designing scalable environments with services like EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, VPC, and more.
• IaC & Automation Mastery: Proficient with both AWS CDK and Terraform. Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines and automating cloud deployments with tools like GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or similar.
• Observability Mindset: Practical experience with monitoring and logging platforms such as DataDog, Honeycomb, or Kloudfuse, and leading successful migrations from legacy systems.
• Engineering Best Practices: Applies best-in-class system design principles. Writes modular, testable, and well-documented infrastructure code with an eye toward cost-efficiency and maintainability.
• Sharp Troubleshooting Skills: Proven ability to diagnose and resolve infrastructure issues, design for failure, and build systems that are resilient by default
  
  

We are a distributed team with offices in the Bay Area, Seattle, WA, Denver, CO, and New York City. Teammates have the option to work remotely from anywhere in the US or from one of our offices.

Benefits:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
• A robust 401K plan to help you invest in your future.
• Access to Modern Health for mental health resources and support.
• Monthly subsidies to cover your telecommunications needs and support your ongoing personal growth and wellness.
• For those near one of our offices, an FSA Commuter/Parking Benefit and lunches when you're working from one of our offices.
• A family-first approach with 12 weeks of paternity leave and 18 weeks of maternity leave, ensuring you have the time you need with your new family members.
  
  

Compensation:

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $182,000-$202,000. Our base salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, benefits, or discretionary bonus.

Not everyone will match the above qualifications 100%. If your experiences don't perfectly align, but you think you'd be a great addition to our team, we'd still love to hear from you.

Productiv is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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