Senior Platform Engineer

doma; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

12 weeks paid family leave

Health savings account

Disability coverage

Supplemental insurance

Job summary

doma is seeking a senior Platform Engineer to lead design and operation of scalable, cloud-native infrastructure focusing on uptime, scale, and secure AI-enabled operations. You will build platform services, IaC modules, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and self-service deployment tools while collaborating with data, reliability, security, and software teams to drive product growth.

The role emphasizes high throughput, low latency, and modernization of existing systems with governance and strong

Qualifications

• Five+ years in platform, infra, data engineering, SRE or DevOps with senior IC experience.
• Experience building and operating large distributed systems in production.
• Practical experience applying AI to infrastructure with governance and safeguards.
• Deep IaC experience (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi).
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, cloud-native deployments and CI/CD systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and operation of platform infrastructure and services.
• Improve reliability with monitoring, alerting, observability, and SLIs/SLOs.
• Set technical standards for scalable cloud systems and provide hands‑on expertise.
• Partner with data, reliability, security, and software teams to support growth.
• Design for high throughput, low latency, and availability; reduce toil.
• Identify ways to improve developer productivity and platform capabilities, including AI-assisted engineering.

Skills

Platform engineering

SRE

DevOps

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Observability

Python

Go

Communication

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Job description

Role overview

Lead the design and operation of platform infrastructure that helps engineering teams deliver software quickly and reliably. The work spans cloud-native services, automation, observability, and developer tooling, with a focus on uptime, scale, and using AI responsibly to improve platform operations.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate platform services, infrastructure-as-code modules, CI/CD pipelines, and self-service deployment tools.
• Improve reliability and performance by implementing monitoring, alerting, and observability, and defining service level indicators and objectives.
• Set technical standards for scalable, resilient cloud systems, and contribute hands‑on engineering expertise.
• Partner with data, reliability, security, and software engineering teams to support product growth.
• Design for high throughput, low latency, and availability; modernize existing infrastructure and reduce operational toil.
• Identify ways to improve developer productivity and platform capabilities, including through AI‑assisted engineering.

Requirements

• At least five years in platform, infrastructure, data engineering, SRE, or DevOps, with senior individual‑contributor experience.
• Track record building and operating large distributed systems in production.
• Practical experience applying AI to infrastructure, with suitable governance and safeguards.
• Deep Infrastructure as Code experience, such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, cloud-native deployment, and CI/CD systems; experience creating self-service pipelines.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar language for internal tools and platform services.
• Experience operating observability systems and a strong understanding of cloud networking, security, and systems architecture.
• Clear communication and documentation skills.

Benefits and work setup

The role is listed as remote. Compensation includes a stated base salary range of $160,000–$190,000 USD, with bonus and equity eligibility. Benefits for eligible full-time employees include medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) with company match, paid time off, 12 weeks of paid family bonding leave, a health savings account, disability coverage, and supplemental insurance.