Senior Platform Engineer — Scale & Observability

CloudDevs; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

WeWork membership

Regular team offsites

Opportunities for growth and development

Inclusive multicultural team

Job summary

A leading identity solutions provider in the United States is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build and evolve their core platform. You will ensure systems are reliable and scalable while working closely with product and data teams. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in platform engineering, familiarity with DevOps practices, and be skilled in automation tools. This remote-first role offers a competitive compensation package and opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience building and operating platforms for SaaS, DaaS, or ML workloads.
• Deep understanding of platform engineering and DevOps principles.
• Experience working across both bare-metal and Cloud environments.
• Skilled in designing and operating distributed data platforms.
• Familiarity with modern data practices like data lakes.
• Comfortable writing automation and platform tooling in Python, Bash, Go.
• Experience with CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code tools.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve platform ensuring stability and reliability.
• Participate in technical design discussions.
• Support critical production systems in on-call rotation.
• Define and champion platform engineering best practices.
• Build and improve platform observability metrics.
• Design fault-tolerant and highly scalable systems.
• Develop self-service tooling and automation.
• Perform maintenance and lifecycle management of applications.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps principles

Distributed data platforms

Automation scripting

CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Kafka

Cassandra

Elasticsearch

Job description

A leading identity solutions provider in the United States is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build and evolve their core platform. You will ensure systems are reliable and scalable while working closely with product and data teams. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in platform engineering, familiarity with DevOps practices, and be skilled in automation tools. This remote-first role offers a competitive compensation package and opportunities for professional growth.