Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud & Kubernetes (Hybrid)

Heartflow; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Heartflow is building an Infrastructure Platform team to migrate and scale its cloud foundations on AWS, moving from serverless to Kubernetes and delivering reliable, developer-friendly platforms.

You will contribute to SRE practices, automate foundations, and improve tooling while shaping a high-impact migration and ongoing platform work for Heartflow’s cloud-native workloads. The role offers hybrid work and competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• Several years of platform, infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps engineering experience; migration of production workloads to a new platform or architecture preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes on AWS (EKS): networking, security, scaling, and day-two operations.
• Solid AWS experience across compute, data, API Gateway, VPC networking, and IAM.
• Production experience with Terraform and comfort with Helm.
• Scripting and automation skills in Bash, Python, or Go.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and containers.
• Clear written and verbal communication with a track record of influencing technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Migrate CDK-based serverless apps to EKS and support cross-account interoperability.
• Translate CDK stacks into Terraform/Terragrunt, Helm, and portal integrations.
• Develop scalable solutions for running event-driven workloads on Kubernetes; evaluate KEDA usage.
• Plan data-tier and API cutovers minimizing downtime and risk.
• Collaborate with application teams to sequence migrations and provide tooling.
• Benchmark migrated services and tune resources; ensure observability and SLOs meet prior levels.

Skills

Kubernetes on AWS (EKS)

Terraform

CI/CD

SRE/DevOps

Scripting (Bash/Python/Go)

Containers/Docker

Communication

Tools

AWS (Lambda, ECS, EKS)

RDS

API Gateway

VPC networking

IAM

Helm

Terragrunt

Harness

KEDA

AWS CDK

Job description

Heartflow is building an Infrastructure Platform team to migrate and scale its cloud foundations on AWS, moving from serverless to Kubernetes and delivering reliable, developer-friendly platforms.

You will contribute to SRE practices, automate foundations, and improve tooling while shaping a high-impact migration and ongoing platform work for Heartflow’s cloud-native workloads. The role offers hybrid work and competitive compensation.