Citrine Informatics

Senior Platform Engineer

Citrine Informatics

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $165,000 - $185,000 per year

Job Level

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