
Senior Platform Engineer
Citrine Informatics
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $165,000 - $185,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure in AWS with attention to scalability, reliability, security, and automation
- Manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, including hands-on work with Terraform and experience with CloudFormation
- Deploy, administer, and maintain Kubernetes clusters in production environments
- Improve platform tooling, deployment workflows, and operational practices that support engineering teams and production systems
- Implement and manage observability and monitoring solutions, ideally including experience with Datadog, across metrics, logging, alerting, and incident response
- Work with containerized systems and deployment workflows, including image build pipelines and optimization techniques
- Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines, including required experience with GitHub Actions; experience with Jenkins and/or ArgoCD is a plus
- Partner with teammates across engineering to identify needs, evaluate options, and deliver practical infrastructure and platform solutions
- Investigate platform and infrastructure issues, support root-cause analysis, and contribute to sustainable improvements
- Participate in technical planning, architecture discussions, and continuous improvement efforts across the platform engineering function
Requirements
- Experience working closely with others in shared technical environments
- A communication style that supports productive collaboration, knowledge sharing, and healthy decision-making
- Comfort making progress in situations where not every variable is known at the outset
- A practical, iterative mindset and willingness to learn as the team moves forward
- Flexibility to take on a range of responsibilities depending on team priorities and current challenges
- Good judgment in managing time, scope, and competing priorities
- Experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or site reliability engineering roles
- Hands-on experience working in AWS production environments, preferably experience using CloudFormation
- Meaningful hands-on expertise with Terraform, including writing and managing infrastructure beyond basic exposure
- Experience implementing observability and monitoring practices, preferably with Datadog
- Production experience with Kubernetes administration and deployment, including cluster deployment, configuration, and maintenance
- Experience with container build and deployment systems, including image optimization techniques such as layer management and efficient build strategies
- Experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines, especially with GitHub Actions
Benefits
- 401k with matching up to 4%
- Medical, vision, dental insurance (we pay 100% of your premium and 75% of your dependents)
- Company-paid Life and Disability insurance
- FSA and HSA plans
- Equity options within the company
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Flexible PTO on top of our 15 paid company holidays (includes your birthday!)
- Free financial counseling
- $600 tech allowance
- Monthly $75 phone reimbursement
- $5,000 annual continuing educational allowance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSTerraformCloudFormationKubernetesCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkinsArgoCDobservabilitymonitoring
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationdecision-makingflexibilitytime managementproblem-solvingiterative mindsetknowledge sharingjudgmentadaptability