Staff Platform Engineer- Build AI-Driven Platforms

Gridsight; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Equity package

Head office in Sydney

Job summary

Gridsight in the United States is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to build foundations enabling product squads to ship faster and with confidence. You will tackle cross-cutting platform problems, from observability to deployment pipelines, across the engineering org.

You’ll mentor engineers, shape DX, and promote AI-assisted tooling. Experience with cloud infra, IaC, and multi-region deployments is valued. We offer remote-first work and an equity package.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering with platform/infrastructure focus.
• Strong cloud infra experience at production scale (AWS, IAM, networking).
• Experience building and operating observability platforms.
• Solid fundamentals in clean architecture, testing, and code review.
• Proven ability to define systems and drive outcomes across teams.

Responsibilities

• Identify and solve cross-cutting platform problems to speed shipping.
• Build and operate observability platforms with metrics, tracing, logging, alerts.
• Evolve deployment automation and infrastructure-as-code; improve CI/CD.
• Architect secure, cost-efficient, multi-tenant, multi-region infrastructure.
• Align data layer tooling (dbt, Databricks) with CI/CD and observability.
• Act as a culture carrier for platform reliability and DX.
• Treat internal developers as customers; gather feedback and iterate tooling.

Skills

Cross-team collaboration

6+ years software engineering

Cloud infrastructure

IaC (Terraform)

Observability platforms

AI-assisted development tooling

AWS

Kubernetes

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Gridsight in the United States is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to build foundations enabling product squads to ship faster and with confidence. You will tackle cross-cutting platform problems, from observability to deployment pipelines, across the engineering org.

You’ll mentor engineers, shape DX, and promote AI-assisted tooling. Experience with cloud infra, IaC, and multi-region deployments is valued. We offer remote-first work and an equity package.