Staff Platform Engineer

Gympass; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office reimbursement

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Birthday holiday

Parental leave

Wellness program

Flexible benefits

Learning resources

Work-life balance

Job summary

Gympass is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to lead the observability ecosystem for a cloud-native platform. This remote Brazil-based role focuses on building tools, defaults, and abstractions so many teams can ship reliable services with minimal ops.

You’ll design cloud-native components on Kubernetes and AWS, create developer-facing abstractions, and mentor engineers while balancing performance and cost.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes and its ecosystem, gained from running real clusters in production.
• Proficiency with a major cloud provider such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, including networking, IAM, cost controls, and common failure modes.
• Strong software engineering skills with the ability to write production code in Go, Ruby, or Python to automate work and build tools for other engineers.
• Background in platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or infrastructure at a company where many internal teams depend on shared services.
• A bias for removing friction and helping many engineers at once, paired with a willingness to learn observability tooling on the job.

Responsibilities

• Review the existing platform with fresh eyes, identify weaknesses, and propose better solutions that the team can evolve over time.
• Design and evolve cloud-native platform components on Kubernetes and AWS, keeping foundations stable as the company grows.
• Build developer-facing abstractions such as templates, CLIs, operators, and golden paths that make instrumentation and self-service straightforward.
• Diagnose root causes of cost, reliability, and developer-experience problems and address them at the platform level rather than per service.
• Author RFCs, set standards, pair on designs, review proposals, and mentor engineers as a technical reference.
• Decide what to stop collecting and where the platform should stay simple, not just what to add.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Go

Ruby

Python

Platform engineering

Site reliability engineering

Observability tooling

Tools

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Crossplane

HashiCorp Vault

Kafka

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Thanos

Loki

Tempo

Pyroscope

Job description

Role overview

A remote opportunity in Brazil for a Staff Platform Engineer to lead the observability ecosystem of a large-scale, cloud-native platform. The position focuses on building the tools, defaults, and abstractions that let many engineering teams ship reliable services without manually operating infrastructure, while balancing performance, reliability, and cost.

Responsibilities

• Review the existing platform with fresh eyes, identify weaknesses, and propose better solutions that the team can evolve over time.
• Design and evolve cloud-native platform components on Kubernetes and AWS, keeping foundations stable as the company grows.
• Build developer-facing abstractions such as templates, CLIs, operators, and golden paths that make instrumentation and self-service straightforward.
• Diagnose root causes of cost, reliability, and developer-experience problems and address them at the platform level rather than per service.
• Author RFCs, set standards, pair on designs, review proposals, and mentor engineers as a technical reference.
• Decide what to stop collecting and where the platform should stay simple, not just what to add.

Requirements

• Deep hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes and its ecosystem, gained from running real clusters in production.
• Proficiency with a major cloud provider such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, including networking, IAM, cost controls, and common failure modes.
• Strong software engineering skills with the ability to write production code in Go, Ruby, or Python to automate work and build tools for other engineers.
• Background in platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or infrastructure at a company where many internal teams depend on shared services.
• A bias for removing friction and helping many engineers at once, paired with a willingness to learn observability tooling on the job.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with the listed open-source stack, including ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Crossplane, HashiCorp Vault, Kafka, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope.
• Comfort using AI tools in daily engineering work and contributing to open-source projects.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote position within Brazil, with hybrid options available and a home office reimbursement.
• Health, dental, and life insurance.
• Paid time off that grows with tenure, plus a dedicated birthday holiday and a fully paid parental leave policy with ramp-back support.
• Wellness and emotional wellbeing programs, including a fitness subscription with family coverage and a structured therapy program.
• Customizable flexible benefits, learning and development resources, and a culture that emphasizes work-life balance.