Staff Platform Engineer (Cloud) (Match Group Americas LLC, West Hollywood, CA)

CurationsLA; West Hollywood (CA); On-site; USD 161,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

CurationsLA is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to design, implement, and support scalable infrastructure across AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and related tooling.

You will troubleshoot issues, optimize performance, and standardize configurations for reliability, observability, and cost efficiency while collaborating with product, security, IT, and finance teams. Some telecommuting may be permitted, with on-site presence in West Hollywood as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 5 years of related cloud platform/SRE experience.
• Master’s degree or U.S. equivalent with 3 years of related experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support cloud infra components (AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD).
• Troubleshoot infra issues to support engineering and operations continuity.
• Develop and maintain standardized infra, backend, and DB configurations.
• Evaluate improvements as technologies evolve.
• Collaborate with product, security, IT, and finance for delivery, security, and cost.
• Provide knowledge sharing through sessions and mentoring on infra tooling.
• Assess emerging tech and drive approved initiatives for the roadmap.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

SRE practices

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering/CS or related field

Master’s degree in Computer Engineering/CS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes (EKS)

Linux systems administration

Observability tools

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP)

Job description

Job Duties

• Design, implement, and support infrastructure components, including AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD platforms, and other third‑party solutions.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure‑related issues to support engineering teams and maintain continuity of business operations.
• Develop and maintain standardized infrastructure, backend, and database configurations to ensure systems are consistent, reliable, observable, scalable, and performant.
• Evaluate and implement improvements to infrastructure systems as technologies and operational practices evolve.
• Design and implement development lifecycle processes in collaboration with backend engineers, including version‑control repository structures, CI/CD workflows, test automation practices, release processes, documentation standards, and monitoring and alerting configurations.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams, including product managers, security, IT, and finance, to ensure timely delivery, infrastructure security, cost‑effectiveness, and more.
• Provide technical assistance and knowledge sharing to engineering team members by participating in interviews, delivering technical knowledge‑sharing sessions, and supporting peer learning related to infrastructure systems and tooling.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry practices relevant to infrastructure engineering and implement approved technical initiatives to support infrastructure roadmap objectives and system improvements.

Telecommuting

Telecommuting may be permitted. When not telecommuting, must report to 8833 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, California 90069.

Salary

$160,513.00 - $192,835.00 per year

Minimum Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field; and 5 years of experience as a Cloud Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or in any occupation, position, or job title performing platform‑focused software engineering, DevOps engineering, or site reliability engineering.

Alternate Requirements

Master’s degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field; and 3 years of experience as a Cloud Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or in any occupation, position, or job title performing platform‑focused software engineering, DevOps engineering, or site reliability engineering.

Must also have the following experience

• 3 years of professional experience administering a Kubernetes‑based platform, including supporting multi‑cluster setup and clusters hosted on cloud‑based platforms including EKS.
• 3 years of professional experience administering Linux systems, including Linux‑based containers, with demonstrated ability to perform system performance tuning and troubleshooting operating system issues.
• 3 years of professional experience configuring and administering observability tools, including establishing alerts and incident management ceremonies.
• 2 years of professional experience supporting a large‑scale microservice‑based platform, including maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, observability systems, ingress/egress, service-to-service communication (mesh), and service-to-resource (RDBMes, messaging/streaming, and caches).
• 2 years of professional experience working with cross‑functional teams, including security, IT, and finance, responding to security, compliance issues, and FinOps‑related tasks.
• 2 years of professional experience with cloud platforms including AWS or GCP, involving management of multiaccount, multiregion environments provisioned using infrastructure‑as‑code tools including Terraform.
• 2 years of professional experience developing software using a compiled language including Java or developing and scripting in an interpreted language including Python.