Senior Platform Engineer, DevX for AI-Driven Apps

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

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

Healthcare

Dental & Vision

Life Insurance

Parental Leave

Job summary

K2 Space is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Enterprise Information Systems team. You will design and deliver scalable developer tools that connect engineering, production, and mission control, enabling faster iteration from concept to orbit.

You will collaborate with architects and senior stakeholders to implement secure, observable systems and reusable golden path patterns. You will mentor engineers, shape the developer experience roadmap, and drive resilient, low-friction

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building developer tooling and deployment patterns.
• PoC to evaluate new technology: 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, end‑to‑end request path, visibility into applied policies, SLI/SLO definition & enforcement)
• Experience with using Terraform or CDK, GitOps (GH Actions, Gitlab CI), 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 accelerate deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Build consistent application patterns to deploy to Amazon EKS enabling both AI-assisted general application development and specialized application 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 road map 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

Low friction patterns

Surgical precision

Readable code

Manufacturing domain knowledge

Reliability in production

Tools

Amazon EKS

Github

Gitlab

Terraform

CDK

GitOps

Job description

K2 Space is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Enterprise Information Systems team. You will design and deliver scalable developer tools that connect engineering, production, and mission control, enabling faster iteration from concept to orbit.

You will collaborate with architects and senior stakeholders to implement secure, observable systems and reusable golden path patterns. You will mentor engineers, shape the developer experience roadmap, and drive resilient, low-friction