Staff Platform Engineer, Compute & Networking

Attentive; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellness

Equity

Job summary

Attentive is seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the Platform team to set the technical direction for the compute and networking platform that underpins Attentive’s microservices architecture on AWS. This hands-on leadership role drives reliability, cost efficiency, and developer productivity while guiding complex initiatives from problem definition through production operation.

You will build reusable cloud components, APIs, and self-service tooling, partner with engineering teams to

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing, building, and operating large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems with leadership across teams.
• Strong software engineering background building maintainable software, tooling, or APIs solving infrastructure problems.
• Able to identify opportunities, bring clarity to ambiguous problems, and lead complex technical initiatives through delivery and production ownership.
• Customer empathy to translate feedback into platform improvements and measure adoption and outcomes.
• Evaluate architectural tradeoffs, communicate decisions clearly, and align teams with different needs.
• Deep experience with AWS or comparable cloud platforms, IaC, and reusable infrastructure abstractions.
• Production experience with Kubernetes, including architecture, networking, and failure modes.
• Strong networking fundamentals across L3-L7 and experience diagnosing connectivity, routing, DNS, load-balancing, and service-to-service communication issues.
• Experience in release engineering, CI/CD pipeline improvements, automated delivery, and safe deployments.
• Experience using observability to understand system behavior and drive reliability improvements.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools to accelerate implementation with care for security and data handling.
• Mentorship and a commitment to continuous learning.

Responsibilities

• Shape the technical direction and architecture of Attentive’s platform within the compute and networking team.
• Partner with engineering teams to build platform software, APIs, and self-service tools that reduce friction and accelerate reliable delivery.
• Lead complex multi-team initiatives from problem definition to production operation with security and maintainability in mind.
• Evolve Kubernetes and networking infrastructure across AWS accounts to support growth and resilience.
• Own and improve Infrastructure-as-Code orchestration and reusable cloud components with consistent interfaces and guardrails.
• Diagnose production issues and drive improvements to design, observability, and operations.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency while reducing operational overhead.
• Raise engineering standards through code reviews, mentorship, and technical guidance.
• Identify and establish AI-assisted engineering practices to boost productivity while ensuring quality and security.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms AWS

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Mentorship

AI-assisted development

Networking fundamentals

Release engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

Argo CD

Terraform

Cloudflare

Docker

Job description

Attentive is seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the Platform team to set the technical direction for the compute and networking platform that underpins Attentive’s microservices architecture on AWS. This hands-on leadership role drives reliability, cost efficiency, and developer productivity while guiding complex initiatives from problem definition through production operation.

You will build reusable cloud components, APIs, and self-service tooling, partner with engineering teams to