Senior Platform Engineer — Kubernetes, Pulumi & Global Cloud Ops

Legora; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Legora is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer in New York City to join an enabling team that makes life easier for developers. The role focuses on reliability, performance, and a rock‑solid platform that scales with the company.

You will work hands‑on across infrastructure and backend systems to help teams ship faster, safer, and smarter. You will operate and evolve our Kubernetes platform, manage cloud ops end‑to‑end across Azure, AWS and GCP, and drive IaC with Pulumi.

Qualifications

• Years of experience as a backend engineer with strong infra, observability and monitoring know‑how.
• Proficient with Kubernetes.
• Experience with Pulumi or similar IaC tools (AWS CDK, Terraform).
• thrives in fast‑paced environments and accepts long hours when needed.

Responsibilities

• Operate and evolve our Kubernetes and CNCF‑aligned platform, including cluster lifecycle and autoscaling.
• Own cloud ops end-to-end across Azure, AWS and GCP.
• Maintain regional architecture for data residency and region-specific operations.
• Drive infrastructure as code with Pulumi and guardrails.
• Improve reliability, performance, cost, SLOs, observability, and incident response.
• Collaborate with SRE and Foundations across regions from NYC.

Skills

Backend engineering

Kubernetes

Observability

Monitoring

Pulumi

IaC

Cloud platforms

Tools

Kubernetes

Pulumi

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Legora is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer in New York City to join an enabling team that makes life easier for developers. The role focuses on reliability, performance, and a rock‑solid platform that scales with the company.

You will work hands‑on across infrastructure and backend systems to help teams ship faster, safer, and smarter. You will operate and evolve our Kubernetes platform, manage cloud ops end‑to‑end across Azure, AWS and GCP, and drive IaC with Pulumi.