Senior Platform Engineer, DevX & AI Tooling

K2 Space; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 200,000; Full time

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Benefits package

Job summary

K2 Space in Los Angeles is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Enterprise Information Systems team. You will design, implement, and deliver platform capabilities that connect engineering, production, and mission control, enabling faster iteration from concept to orbit.

You will work with engineers and stakeholders to evolve developer tooling, promote AI-enabled workflows, and ensure secure, observable, and scalable systems across AWS EKS environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building developer tooling and deployment patterns.
• PoC to evaluate AI Platform, AI models, introducing new developer experience products.
• Proficiency in at least one language (Go, TypeScript, Python, C#) and disciplined SCM workflows.
• Deep working knowledge architecture knowledge of designing, developing and deploying application to Amazon EKS.
• Deep working knowledge of CI/CD build pipeline with Github or Gitlab.
• Competence leveraging observability & SLOs (metrics, tracing, structured logs, L4/L7 telemetry).
• Experience with Terraform or CDK, GitOps, progressive/canary rollouts, policy-as-code integration.
• Experience with AI-assisted development process and understand how to navigate benefits and challenges of leveraging AI to accelerated deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Build consistent application patterns to deploy to Amazon EKS enabling both AI-assisted general application development and specialized development work.
• Promoting AI adoption in a secure and consistent model while supporting AI operational needs.
• Establishing AI guardrails, observability and governance within the context of software development ensuring AI assisted application development will be secured with industry best practices.
• Build guard rails and out-of-the-box platform functionalities for golden path deployment model and accelerate applications go-live with low friction tooling.
• Lead long term developer experience roadmap incorporating capabilities from multiple disciplines within software industry.
• Engineer resilient traffic paths (timeouts, retries, circuit breaking, failure isolation) and harden them via chaos tests, automated remediation, and MTTR reduction.
• Incorporate observability services for end‑to‑end application monitoring and alerting.
• Provide approachable docs & diagnostics (guides, diagrams, 'why can’t this connect?' flows) to shorten support loops.
• Optimize performance & cost (latency budgets, cross‑AZ transfer, IP consumption, LB efficiency) and act on anomalies.
• Steward code lifecycle and adoption including versioning, safe migrations, deprecations, usage telemetry, and proactive pruning of unused resources.
• Mentor engineers and partner with adjacent teams to embed application abstractions into golden paths, raising organizational fluency and consistency in software engineering.
• Build automated policies and processes to ensure good code deployment practices, code hygiene, good code test practices.

Skills

Developer tooling

AI platforms

Go/TS/Python/C#

Amazon EKS

CI/CD pipelines

Observability & SLOs

Terraform/CDK

AI-assisted development

Github

Gitlab

Tools

Github

Gitlab

AWS CDK

Terraform

Amazon EKS

Job description

K2 Space in Los Angeles is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Enterprise Information Systems team. You will design, implement, and deliver platform capabilities that connect engineering, production, and mission control, enabling faster iteration from concept to orbit.

You will work with engineers and stakeholders to evolve developer tooling, promote AI-enabled workflows, and ensure secure, observable, and scalable systems across AWS EKS environments.