Senior Platform Engineer – Self‑Service Infra

Loop; United States; On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible PTO

Company holidays, sick & safe leave

Parental leave

401k matching

Monthly wellness benefit

Home workstation stipend

Phone/internet reimbursement

Equity

Job summary

Loop is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to simplify and secure our infrastructure, improve delivery workflows, and empower engineers. You will lead practical platform improvements, build self-serve provisioning, and enhance observability while collaborating across teams to reduce toil and risk.

You will work with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, and PHP/Laravel, shaping the foundation for agent-assisted engineering and safer releases.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or related infra work.
• Deep, hands-on Kubernetes experience, including configuration, secrets, deployment, scaling, and production troubleshooting.
• Experience building and operating AWS infrastructure for production systems with meaningful traffic and availability requirements.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD experience, including Terraform and GitLab CI or comparable tools.
• An observability mindset, with experience using metrics, logs, traces, and alerting to understand system behavior.
• The ability to write, read, debug, and maintain automation and tooling, and investigate problems across application and infrastructure boundaries.
• Examples of making delivery safer, reducing operational toil, or enabling engineers to work independently.
• Clear written communication and experience leading technical work across teams without relying on formal authority.
• Experience with cloud security, least-privilege access, secrets management, SOC 2, or GDPR is especially useful.
• Application performance tuning, PHP/Laravel, database operations, and infrastructure for AI agents are additional strengths.

Responsibilities

• Build a platform that helps engineers help themselves.
• Build self-serve workflows that let engineers provision infrastructure, ship services, and recover from failures without waiting on anyone.
• Improve our CI/CD pipelines, deploy checks, progressive delivery, and automated rollback so safe releases take less coordination and manual work.
• Simplify our infrastructure and make production changes safer and easier to recover from.
• Change our AWS and Kubernetes environment by turning complexity into a prioritized plan balancing reliability, security, cost, and upkeep.
• Improve reliability through evidence with observability, alerting, SLOs, and capacity planning.
• Help build the foundation for agent-assisted engineering by improving tooling and access boundaries.
• Work across infrastructure and application boundaries with product and data engineers to reduce performance and reliability issues.
• Share thinking, document decisions, and coach teammates to make systems understandable; participate in platform on-call and incident response.

Skills

Kubernetes experience

DevOps

SRE

Automation

Communication

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Datadog

Linux

PHP/Laravel

Job description

Loop is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to simplify and secure our infrastructure, improve delivery workflows, and empower engineers. You will lead practical platform improvements, build self-serve provisioning, and enhance observability while collaborating across teams to reduce toil and risk.

You will work with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, and PHP/Laravel, shaping the foundation for agent-assisted engineering and safer releases.