Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud, Kubernetes & Reliability

fanaticsfbg; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

The role focuses on leading complex platform engineering initiatives to deploy and operate core services in a cloud-first environment. You will guide architecture, drive reliability, improve developer experience, and mentor engineers across teams.

Responsibilities include designing scalable platform services, automation of infrastructure and CI/CD, enhancing observability and incident response, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve cloud-native performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• Track record of leading complex technical initiatives and influencing team direction.

Responsibilities

• Lead platform projects from architecture and design through implementation, deployment and ongoing improvement.
• Design and maintain scalable platform services, infrastructure automation and CI/CD systems.
• Improve logging, metrics, tracing and alerting to strengthen service visibility and incident response.
• Partner with application and platform teams to improve cloud-native performance, scalability and reliability.
• Take part in incident response and post-incident reviews, then drive reliability improvements.
• Set engineering practices for infrastructure and software delivery, and provide technical guidance and mentorship.
• Break complex work into achievable milestones, coordinate delivery across teams and contribute to roadmap planning.

Skills

Leadership

Backend development

Distributed systems

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD

Observability

Incident management

Go

Python

Communication across teams

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

The role focuses on leading complex platform engineering initiatives to deploy and operate core services in a cloud-first environment. You will guide architecture, drive reliability, improve developer experience, and mentor engineers across teams.

Responsibilities include designing scalable platform services, automation of infrastructure and CI/CD, enhancing observability and incident response, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve cloud-native performance and reliability.