Senior Platform Infrastructure Engineer

Kikoff; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 307,000 - 352,000; Full time

Job summary

Kikoff is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to own high-leverage infrastructure problems from design to production. You will build internal products, pave paths for engineers, and reduce cost and toil while improving reliability.

You will work hands-on, write code, review designs, and help engineers solve problems beyond runbooks across multiple infrastructure domains. AI-assisted growth is a focus for scalable platforms.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of infrastructure, platform, or software engineering experience or Staff-level impact.
• Owned production systems with incidents and improvements.
• Strong coding skills in TypeScript, Python, Go, or Ruby; can build production software.

Responsibilities

• Build and own critical platform systems with reliability, security, and cost discipline.
• Run infrastructure as a product with paved paths and automation.
• Set technical direction from design through production ownership.
• Raise the engineering bar by reviewing code, guiding decisions, and documenting standards.

Skills

Staff-level experience

TypeScript coding

Python

Go

Ruby

Observability

Security boundaries

Communication

Generalist judgment

Platform capability building

Tools

Pulumi

TypeScript

AWS

Kubernetes

HCL

Ruby

RDS

S3

IAM

Job description

Kikoff is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to own high-leverage infrastructure problems from design to production. You will build internal products, pave paths for engineers, and reduce cost and toil while improving reliability.

You will work hands-on, write code, review designs, and help engineers solve problems beyond runbooks across multiple infrastructure domains. AI-assisted growth is a focus for scalable platforms.