GoodRx

Senior Platform Engineer

GoodRx

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: CaliforniaNew YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $121,000 - $257,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Design, implement, and evolve highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure on AWS and GCP.
  • Apply sound architectural judgment and long-term systems thinking while balancing cost.
  • Design and develop reusable platform tooling and infrastructure-as-code modules that accelerate build and release management while improving reliability and consistency across teams.
  • Partner with application engineering teams to define, improve, and enforce operational standards, deployment practices, and reliability expectations across services.
  • Independently lead complex infrastructure upgrades, migrations, and performance optimization initiatives.
  • Conduct structured root cause analysis for production incidents and drive systemic improvements to prevent recurrence.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to platform architecture, scalability, and cost efficiency.
  • Document architectural decisions, operational standards, and runbooks to improve organizational knowledge sharing.
  • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to Platform Engineer team members on infrastructure design and DevOps best practices.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience architecting and operating automated Linux-based cloud infrastructure in production environments.
  • Strong experience designing and operating complex CI/CD pipelines (blue/green, canary, multi-stage) in large-scale production environments.
  • Deep hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent), including reusable module design and environment standardization.
  • Strong software engineering background in Python, Go, or similar languages, with the ability to build automation and tooling to solve complex operational challenges.
  • Build and release experience with tools such as Github Actions, GitlabCI, Codefresh or similar.
  • Hands-on experience using AI to speed up research, coding, troubleshooting, and documentation workflows.
  • Experience designing observability systems using APM, metrics, logs, and tracing tools (Datadog, CloudWatch, SumoLogic, etc.) to proactively manage reliability.
  • Deep hands-on experience operating Kubernetes clusters in production, including workload orchestration, scaling, networking, and troubleshooting.
  • Strong analytical and debugging skills, with demonstrated ability to independently diagnose and resolve complex, multi-system issues.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to advise senior engineering partners and clearly communicate technical trade-offs.
  • Excellent time management and organizational skills.
Benefits
  • medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) with a company match
  • ESPP
  • unlimited vacation
  • 13 paid holidays
  • 72 hours of sick leave
  • mental wellness programs
  • financial wellness programs
  • fertility benefits
  • generous parental leave
  • pet insurance
  • supplemental life insurance for you and your dependents
  • company-paid short-term and long-term disability
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSGCPinfrastructure-as-codeTerraformCloudFormationPythonGoCI/CD pipelinesKubernetesobservability systems
Soft Skills
analytical skillsdebugging skillscollaborationcommunication skillstime managementorganizational skillsmentorshipleadershipproblem-solvingroot cause analysis