
Senior Platform Engineer
Bright Machines
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $160,000 - $190,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
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