Senior Platform Engineer — Remote Kubernetes & Infra Lead

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior/Staff Platform Engineer to build, operate, and evolve large-scale production infrastructure. This hands-on role focuses on Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, troubleshooting complex production systems, and building automation.

You will write production code and tooling in Go, Python, or Java, own ambiguous initiatives from design through production, and drive critical reliability decisions with minimal direction.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, or related fields; 10+ years is preferred for Staff-level candidates.
• Significant hands-on experience operating complex production infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Production programming experience with Go, Python, or Java.
• Strong experience with production reliability, incident response, troubleshooting, and operational ownership.
• Experience independently owning complex technical initiatives from an ambiguous starting point through production.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and improve production Kubernetes platforms.
• Own platform-level concerns including cluster architecture, networking, workload isolation, resource management, security, upgrades, scaling, and reliability.
• Troubleshoot Kubernetes beyond the application layer, including networking/CNI, scheduling, node behaviour, resource constraints, controllers, and cluster-level failures.
• Operate and improve large-scale, highly available infrastructure across cloud, hybrid, virtualised, and/or bare-metal environments.
• Diagnose complex issues spanning Kubernetes, containers, Linux, networking, and underlying infrastructure.
• Optimise platform infrastructure for reliability, performance, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Write, maintain, and improve production tooling and automation using Go, Python, or Java.
• Build software and automation that improves platform operations, reliability, deployment, troubleshooting, and developer experience.
• Read, debug, and contribute to existing production codebases.
• Develop internal services, APIs, integrations, and operational tooling where needed.

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux

Cloud infrastructure

Go

Python

Java

CI/CD

Observability

Incident response

Networking

Tools

Terraform

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior/Staff Platform Engineer to build, operate, and evolve large-scale production infrastructure. This hands-on role focuses on Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, troubleshooting complex production systems, and building automation.

You will write production code and tooling in Go, Python, or Java, own ambiguous initiatives from design through production, and drive critical reliability decisions with minimal direction.