Staff Platform Engineer

Sibros; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a technical leader to drive architectural decisions and mentor a team of engineers. This role involves owning the multi-cloud strategy, ensuring best practices across platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure. You'll identify gaps in systems and design reusable solutions that enhance reliability and performance. With a focus on automation and efficiency, you will champion best engineering practices and lead initiatives for incident management and operational stability. Join a dynamic team where your contributions will significantly impact the future of technology in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

Competitive compensation package including equity options

Comprehensive health plan with company contribution

Flexible vacation and paid time off

Team events and off-sites

Budget for online courses, books, and conferences

Employee wellness programs

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems, ideally in IoT platforms.
• Extensive experience in cloud infrastructure and container orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical leader, mentoring engineers and guiding design decisions.
• Drive architectural decisions for critical platform components.

Skills

Large-scale distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

Golang

Observability

DevOps principles

Systems-thinking

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Act as a technical leader for the team, mentoring engineers and guiding design decisions to ensure long-term maintainability and scalability.

Own and drive architectural decisions for critical platform components, such as service mesh, authentication, observability, storage abstractions, feature flagging, and other core platform services.

Lead multi-cloud strategy efforts, ensuring best practices in abstraction and consistency across cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure), while minimizing operational complexity.

Identify systemic gaps and inefficiencies as we scale to millions of devices, designing generic, reusable solutions to improve reliability, observability, and performance.

Champion automation and efficiency across the engineering organization by building tools, frameworks, and self-service capabilities that empower teams to focus on product innovation.

Advocate for and implement best-in-class engineering practices, ensuring high-performance and scalable software design in both application code and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions.

Drive incident management and reliability initiatives, improving monitoring, alerting, and operational response to proactively maintain platform stability.

Collaborate cross-functionally with teams across engineering, security, and product to influence technical strategy and drive alignment.

What You Should Know:

• Deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems, ideally in IoT platforms or similar high-scale, high-availability architectures.
• Extensive experience in cloud infrastructure, particularly Kubernetes, container orchestration, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with Terraform (preferred).
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures and ability to abstract complexity across multiple cloud providers.
• Proficiency in at least one production-grade programming language (Golang preferred), with a strong understanding of software design principles and performance optimizations.
• A track record of mentoring engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, and influencing engineering direction across teams.
• Experience in observability, monitoring, and reliability engineering, ensuring that platform services are highly available and resilient.
• Passion for automation and DevOps principles, reducing operational toil through CI/CD, self-healing infrastructure, and efficient workflows.
• Strong systems-thinking approach, balancing short-term tactical improvements with long-term strategic investments.

Perks of joining the Sibros team:

• Competitive and generous total compensation package including equity options.
• Comprehensive health plan with company contribution.
• Flexible vacation and paid time off. You are the best person to decide when you need time off. Our flexible vacation policy puts you in control.
• Team events and off-sites.
• Budget for online courses, books, and conferences.
• Employee wellness programs to support self-care and overall wellness.