Senior Platform Engineer — Kubernetes & Cloud Reliability

WHOOP; Boston (MA); In loco; USD 150.000 - 215.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

WHOOP is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead large-scale infrastructure projects across Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud services. You will shape the AppInfra roadmap, mentor engineers, and partner with security and data teams to raise the bar for reliability and velocity.

Based in Boston, MA, you will own deployment safety, multi-cluster operations, and performance tuning across WHOOP’s software delivery pipelines, helping engineers ship faster with confidence.

Competenze

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform, Site Reliability, CloudEngineering, or Backend Software Engineering roles.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture and core components.
• Experience with multi-cluster Kubernetes environments and inter-cluster communication patterns.
• Hands-on experience operating cloud infrastructure, preferably in AWS (IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, CloudTrail, Organizations).
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. Terraform).
• Experience developing backend or infrastructure-adjacent services using Java, C#, or Python.
• Proven ability to evaluate system performance, identify bottlenecks, and use data to drive improvements.
• Experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders and prioritizing work for maximum business impact.

Mansioni

• Design, develop, and operate WHOOP’s Kubernetes clusters running on AWS infrastructure.
• Drive architectural decisions to improve scalability, resiliency, performance, and security across the build and deployment platform.
• Build systems and tooling that increase deployment safety and accelerate release velocity to Kubernetes.
• Advance CI/CD capabilities to support frequent, reliable production deployments.
• Lead developer productivity improvements through tooling, automation, and platform integrations.
• Partner with application, security, and data teams to embed secure-by-default infrastructure practices.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems to continuously improve platform reliability.
• Mentor and provide technical leadership to engineers on the Application Infrastructure team.
• Help define and execute the long-term roadmap for infrastructure and Kubernetes management at WHOOP.

Conoscenze

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Java

C#

Python

Strumenti

Kafka

Descrizione del lavoro

WHOOP is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead large-scale infrastructure projects across Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud services. You will shape the AppInfra roadmap, mentor engineers, and partner with security and data teams to raise the bar for reliability and velocity.

Based in Boston, MA, you will own deployment safety, multi-cluster operations, and performance tuning across WHOOP’s software delivery pipelines, helping engineers ship faster with confidence.