Bright Machines

Senior Platform Engineer

Bright Machines

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $160,000 - $190,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Design, implement, and maintain reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure to support applications and automation systems.
  • Own and continuously improve platform engineering tools and services, including documentation and cross-team communication.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment pipelines.
  • Manage CI/CD systems to enable efficient and reliable delivery of software.
  • Implement and operate observability solutions (logging, monitoring, alerting) to ensure uptime and system performance.
  • Enforce security best practices, including vulnerability management and incident response readiness.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation for services owned by the Platform Engineering team.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
  • At least 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
  • Strong experience with physical infrastructure, including networking equipment and servers.
  • Proficiency with CI/CD tools and GitOps workflows.
  • Hands-on coding experience in Python and Shell scripting.
  • Solid understanding of Linux internals and system administration.
  • Experience with public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
  • Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible).
  • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes (self-hosted and managed), including Helm.
  • Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
Platform EngineeringDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringCI/CDPythonShell scriptingLinuxInfrastructure as CodeTerraformKubernetes
Soft skills
communicationdocumentationcross-team collaborationincident response readiness