Senior Platform Engineer — Reliability & Scale Leader

SkyBox Capital; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 175,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

GoTickets is hiring a Lead Platform Engineer to own performance, reliability and security of the production infrastructure. You will work with the SVP of Engineering and the founder to shape architecture and investments.

You’ll inherit a production platform with real traffic and build scalable, reliable systems. The role starts as senior IC with potential to lead a growing platform engineering team.

Qualifications

• 5–10+ years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Infrastructure.
• Hands-on with AWS, Kubernetes, and EKS.
• Experience writing/maintaining Terraform infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
• Security-focused with IAM, network, and monitoring expertise.

Responsibilities

• Own infrastructure health across staging and production (Kubernetes/AWS).
• Set performance baselines, SLIs/alerts, and incident response.
• Design and operate EKS/Kubernetes platform, CI/CD, and IaC.
• Maintain security controls, IAM, and access management across environments.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Cloudflare

Datadog

Security

Tools

Jenkins

Argo CD

Terraform

Job description

GoTickets is hiring a Lead Platform Engineer to own performance, reliability and security of the production infrastructure. You will work with the SVP of Engineering and the founder to shape architecture and investments.

You’ll inherit a production platform with real traffic and build scalable, reliable systems. The role starts as senior IC with potential to lead a growing platform engineering team.