Senior Platform Engineer: Self-Serve Infra & Safe Deploys

Loop Returns; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k

Equity

Flexible PTO

Home workstation

Job summary

Loop Returns seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to simplify, secure, and empower our infrastructure and delivery workflows. You will build a self-serve platform for engineers, improve CI/CD pipelines, and drive safer releases while reducing toil and operational risk.

You will own automation across AWS, Kubernetes, and related tooling, collaborating with security and product teams to balance reliability, cost, and velocity.

Qualifications

• Hands-on platform engineering and DevOps experience.
• Deep Kubernetes configuration, secrets, deployment, and troubleshooting.
• Experience building and operating AWS production infrastructure.
• Proficiency with Terraform and GitLab CI/CD.
• Observability mindset: metrics, logs, traces, alerts.

Responsibilities

• Build a self-serve platform for engineers to provision infra.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment checks, and safe releases.
• Increase reliability with observability and capacity planning.
• Lead technical work across teams without formal authority.
• Partner with security for least-privilege access and secrets.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS infra

CI/CD

IaC

Observability

Automation

Cross-team comms

Prod troubleshooting

Security awareness

Tools

Terraform

GitLab CI

Docker

Datadog

Linux

PHP/Laravel

Job description

Loop Returns seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to simplify, secure, and empower our infrastructure and delivery workflows. You will build a self-serve platform for engineers, improve CI/CD pipelines, and drive safer releases while reducing toil and operational risk.

You will own automation across AWS, Kubernetes, and related tooling, collaborating with security and product teams to balance reliability, cost, and velocity.