Senior Platform Engineer - Remote-First Cloud & GKE

InfiniteChoice; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

InfiniteChoice is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer in Austin, TX to own and evolve our cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud. You’ll manage GKE clusters, Terraform configurations, and build self-service workflows for developers, while driving architectural decisions and ADRs.

You will mentor engineers, contribute production code in Go/Python, and define SLOs with service teams. This role emphasizes reliability, cost visibility, and scalable infrastructure practices.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in platform, SRE or infrastructure engineering.
• Deep hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production, ideally GKE.
• Strong Terraform experience, including structuring modules and state across many environments and GCP projects.
• Solid GCP experience across networking, IAM, and core services.
• You've led a migration of production workloads between platforms without downtime.
• You write production code in Go, Python, or a similar language, and you can read application code when debugging.
• You explain technical tradeoffs clearly in writing, to engineers and to non-engineers.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• Industry certifications (Google Cloud Professional, SRE or related certifications preferred).
• Practical experience with AI coding tools, and a view on where they help in infrastructure work and where they don't.

Responsibilities

• Design and run the platform our product teams deploy onto, including templates, CI/CD, and GKE Gateway API routing.
• Define SLOs with the teams that own each service, and use them to decide where reliability work goes.
• Make architecture decisions for our infrastructure and write them up as ADRs others can review.
• Review infrastructure changes across engineering and mentor the engineers making them.
• Plan capacity for clusters, databases, and caches, find and remove waste, and keep GCP spend in line with traffic as we grow.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Python

SRE

Cloud architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

GKE

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

InfiniteChoice is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer in Austin, TX to own and evolve our cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud. You’ll manage GKE clusters, Terraform configurations, and build self-service workflows for developers, while driving architectural decisions and ADRs.

You will mentor engineers, contribute production code in Go/Python, and define SLOs with service teams. This role emphasizes reliability, cost visibility, and scalable infrastructure practices.