Staff Platform Engineer

Jobgether; South Africa; Teletrabalho; ZAR 1 400 000 - 2 200 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Fully remote working arrangement

Competitive salary package

Collaboration across European and US時間

Resumo da oferta

Jobgether is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer based in South Africa to shape infrastructure and developer experience across a growing engineering org. You will lead initiatives on continuous delivery, cloud infrastructure, automation, and developer productivity, collaborating with distributed teams to implement scalable platform solutions and AI-driven workflows.

You will guide architectural decisions, drive platform-wide improvements, and own cloud infra, CI/CD pipelines, and developer

Qualificações

• Staff Engineer level with proven cross-functional leadership.
• Influence architectural decisions and establish technical standards.
• Design, build, and operate production cloud infra on AWS (ECS/Fargate, RDS).
• Expertise with Terraform or Terragrunt for IaC.
• Proven CI/CD improvements to speed, frequency, and reliability.
• Observability with Datadog and incident management excellence.
• Strong communication across distributed teams and hands-on ownership.

Responsabilidades

• Lead major platform engineering initiatives from design to deployment and ongoing improvement.
• Improve developer productivity by enhancing CI reliability and deployment automation.
• Drive architectural decisions across teams, leading design reviews and implementations.
• Own cloud infra, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling for scale.
• Build self-service developer platforms and automation to support AI-driven workflows.
• Improve delivery speed and reliability through testing and deployment workflow optimization.
• Strengthen production reliability with monitoring, alerts, and incident response.
• Collaborate with global Platform teams and provide on-call coverage during key hours.
• Lead infra standards, architecture governance, and reliability practices.
• Mentor peers and foster ownership, automation, and continuous learning.

Conhecimentos

Staff Engineer level

Technical leadership

Architectural influence

CI/CD optimization

AWS cloud infra

Terraform or Terragrunt

Datadog observability

Incident management

Cross-functional collaboration

Hands-on engineering

Ferramentas

Terraform

Terragrunt

Datadog

AWS

ECS/Fargate

RDS

Descrição da oferta de emprego

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Platform Engineer based in South Africa.

As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the infrastructure and developer experience that power a growing engineering organization. You will lead high-impact initiatives focused on continuous delivery, cloud infrastructure, automation, and developer productivity. Working closely with distributed engineering teams, you will influence architectural decisions and build scalable platforms that make software development faster, safer, and more reliable. You will also help evolve developer environments to support increasingly autonomous AI-powered engineering workflows. Combining hands-on technical execution with strategic leadership, you will have the opportunity to drive meaningful improvements across the entire software development lifecycle. This is a high-ownership role where your work will directly influence engineering efficiency, platform reliability, and long-term technical scalability.

Accountabilities

• Lead major platform engineering initiatives, starting with Continuous Delivery, from technical design and architecture reviews through implementation, deployment, and continuous improvement.

• Deliver early improvements to developer productivity by strengthening CI reliability, optimizing merge workflows, automating deployments, and improving local development environments.

• Drive architectural decisions across engineering teams, preparing technical proposals, leading design reviews, and ensuring successful implementation of platform-wide solutions.

• Own and evolve cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, developer environments, observability systems, and operational tooling to support a scalable engineering organization.

• Build the next generation of developer infrastructure through automation, self-service tooling, and reusable abstractions that reduce friction for engineers and increasingly autonomous AI agents.

• Improve software delivery speed, deployment frequency, and operational reliability through continuous optimization of testing infrastructure and deployment workflows.

• Strengthen production reliability by implementing effective monitoring, alerting, incident response practices, and long-term solutions to recurring operational issues.

• Collaborate with distributed Platform and Engineering teams, sharing responsibility for production support, on-call coverage, and incident management during Americas business hours.

• Lead broader engineering initiatives, including infrastructure standards, architecture governance, technical documentation, and organization-wide reliability practices.

• Promote engineering excellence by mentoring peers, influencing technical standards, and fostering a culture of ownership, automation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Requirements:

• Extensive experience in software engineering at Staff Engineer or equivalent level, with a proven track record of leading complex, cross-functional technical initiatives as a hands-on individual contributor.

• Strong technical leadership capabilities, including experience influencing architectural decisions, improving engineering practices, and collaborating with engineering leadership to establish technical standards.

• Demonstrated expertise in designing, building, and operating production cloud infrastructure, particularly on AWS, including ECS/Fargate, RDS, or equivalent services.

• Solid experience with containerization technologies and Infrastructure as Code tools, particularly Terraform or Terragrunt.

• Proven expertise in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, with experience improving CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, and deployment processes to achieve measurable gains in speed, frequency, and reliability.

• Strong developer platform mindset, with experience building self-service tools, scalable developer environments, and internal platforms that improve the engineering experience.

• Understanding of how to design developer infrastructure that supports automation and increasingly autonomous AI-driven software development workflows.

• Experience designing and operating observable production systems using Datadog or equivalent monitoring and observability platforms.

• Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills, with the ability to diagnose complex production issues, improve system resilience, and implement sustainable solutions.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across distributed teams and take ownership of initiatives from conception to delivery.

• A proactive, hands-on approach to engineering, with a strong preference for building and implementing solutions rather than limiting involvement to advisory work or ticket management.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary package.

• Fully remote working arrangement, offering flexibility and autonomy.

• Opportunity to join an established Continuous Delivery initiative with strong organizational support and clear priorities.

• A solid technical foundation, including established Datadog observability and existing deployment workflows, allowing you to focus on meaningful improvements rather than building everything from scratch.

• Collaboration with an experienced, distributed Platform team, including dedicated engineering support across European and American time zones.

• Significant technical ownership and influence over infrastructure strategy, architectural decisions, and developer platform evolution.

• Opportunity to shape modern engineering environments that increasingly integrate automation and AI-powered development workflows.

• High-impact work within a growing organization, where your contributions can directly improve engineering productivity and operational performance.

• Inclusive and collaborative working culture built around ownership, continuous learning, simplicity, and thoughtful execution.

• Opportunity to contribute to a meaningful mission focused on helping independent business owners build and grow sustainable businesses.

• An environment that values diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, with accommodations available throughout the recruitment process.