
Principal Platform Engineer
Coforma
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Arizona • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $174,399 - $187,006 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Contribute to our core platform codebase by helping build and maintain shared services such as authentication and identity, API services, and deployment pipelines
- Help research and design a future internal platform portal to catalogue our products and services, and centralize self-service workflows
- Identify areas of developer toil and friction, and design self-service solutions to reduce repetitive tasks and frequent support requests
- Manage CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for containerized and serverless applications
- Partner with Coforma's growth team to deliver innovative solutions and prototypes on our platform
- Serve as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and DevOps lead for the innovation department, supporting product and platform vision by helping shape an in-house SRE and DevOps practice
- Implement and oversee an observability stack (Grafana, Datadog, OTEL, Sentry, Incident.io) to standardize the monitoring, alerting, incident response, and performance of our products and services
- Collaborate across departments as a subject matter expert (SME) to promote SRE best practices and principles within other Engineering and Delivery teams
- Help manage our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environment with a focus on performance, resiliency, and security
- Use and promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform or Pulumi for consistent, secure deployments and change management
- Implement shift-left security to help developers ship secure code with minimal friction.
Requirements
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, and DevOps roles
- 2+ years of experience in senior and technical lead roles in Engineering teams
- Expertise with our core Platform stack: GCP, GitHub, Datadog, Grafana
- Experience building containerized platform services (Javascript, Go, Rust, Python)
- Experience developing and maintaining internal platform tools for developers, owning SLOs, and championing product performance and velocity
- Demonstrated ability to lead incident response, security reviews and remediation, and navigate compliance requirements
- Full-time resident of the contiguous United States (must be legally authorized to work in the US now and in the future without sponsorship).
Benefits
- Internet: Will prioritize and maintain access to strong, reliable internet for the remote nature of our work, except when on vacation or holiday.
- Security: Will keep the highest security practices to ensure privacy and security of Coforma and client information, given the nature of our work, even when on vacation.
- Travel Flexibility: On request and with advanced notice, will attend in-person events such as meetings, workshops, and trainings as assigned for projects that require it.
- Brand Representation: Will represent Coforma professionally and sincerely, modeling our Company Values in all interactions.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Platform EngineeringSite Reliability Engineering (SRE)DevOpsCI/CDInfrastructure as Code (IaC)JavascriptGoRustPythonSecurity reviews
Soft Skills
LeadershipCollaborationProblem-solvingCommunicationInnovation