Senior Platform Engineer: Kubernetes Migration Lead

HeartFlow, Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Job summary

HeartFlow, Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead migrations from AWS Lambda and ECS to a Kubernetes-based platform on AWS EKS.

You will design reference architectures, automate cloud-native workflows, and collaborate with multiple teams to ensure scalable, secure compute across our platform. The role emphasizes hands-on Kubernetes expertise, Terraform-driven infrastructure, and strong developer experience enhancements, with a hybrid work model and a base salary in the high

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Platform, Infrastructure, or DevOps Engineering roles, with significant time spent on large-scale compute migrations.
• Expert-level proficiency in Kubernetes (design, deployment, operations, networking, security, and scaling).
• Deep, hands-on experience with AWS compute services, particularly AWS Lambda and ECS/Fargate, and a clear understanding of their operational models and scaling behaviors.
• Proven experience migrating production workloads from traditional cloud compute (VMs, Lambdas, ECS) to Kubernetes.
• Strong background in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), specifically Terraform.
• Proficiency with containerization technologies (Docker) and modern CI/CD practices.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and technical leadership skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical roadmap, migration patterns, and reference architectures for moving Lambda functions and ECS services to Kubernetes on AWS EKS.
• Develop robust, scalable solutions for running event-driven, serverless-like workflows on Kubernetes, possibly using KEDA or similar tools.
• Use Terraform/Terragrunt and Helm to build and manage Kubernetes infrastructure, networking, and deployment tooling.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to understand workload requirements and provide re-platforming guidance and reusable migration tooling.
• Benchmark migrated services, optimize resource requests/limits, and implement observability to meet or exceed SLOs.
• Establish best practices, guardrails, and docs for running event-based compute on Kubernetes for smooth post-migration operation.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS Lambda

ECS/Fargate

Terraform

Terragrunt

Helm

CI/CD

Docker

Go

Python

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Helm

Docker

Job description

HeartFlow, Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead migrations from AWS Lambda and ECS to a Kubernetes-based platform on AWS EKS.

You will design reference architectures, automate cloud-native workflows, and collaborate with multiple teams to ensure scalable, secure compute across our platform. The role emphasizes hands-on Kubernetes expertise, Terraform-driven infrastructure, and strong developer experience enhancements, with a hybrid work model and a base salary in the high