Staff Platform Engineer - Remote Cloud & CI/CD Leader

Jobgether; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 1,400,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote working arrangement

Competitive salary package

Collaboration across European and US時間

Job summary

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

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

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

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Datadog

AWS

ECS/Fargate

RDS

Job description

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