Senior Software Engineer – DX and Platform Infrastructure
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AWSCloudDockerGoKubernetesLinuxPythonRubyTerraform
Senior Platform Engineer
hims & hers
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $140,000 - $170,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSBootstrapCloudGoGrafanaJavaJavaScriptKubernetesPrometheusPythonTerraformTypeScript
About the role
- Expand Backstage beyond greenfield: Stand up catalog ingestion and ownership models; create software templates and Scaffolder actions that let teams standardize, bootstrap, and retrofit existing repos into the platform.
- Retro‑onboard 100+ services: Build importers, linters, and migration playbooks to add legacy services to Backstage with clear docs, checks, and golden‑path defaults (CI, runtime, observability, security).
- Automate upgrades to prevent drift: Ship organization‑wide upgrade mechanisms (e.g., codemods/OpenRewrite, repo PR fan‑out) to keep SDKs, APIs, and platform dependencies current.
- Establish platform guardrails: Define scorecards/insights and CI policies (lint, contract checks, security baselines) that raise signals and make it easy for teams to get to “green.”
- Own core platform components: Design, build, and operate Kubernetes, IaC (e.g., Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, service templates, runtime addons, and shared libraries with SLOs and clear runbooks.
- Work closely with product teams: Partner with a rotating set of squads to co‑design golden paths, collect feedback, remove friction, and measure adoption and impact.
- Lead migrations and deprecations: Plan and execute multi‑repo changes (API versioning, SDK upgrades, framework/runtime bumps) with clear comms, docs, and safe rollout strategies.
Requirements
- 7+ years as a DevOps, SRE, Software, or Platform Engineer building and operating services and the tooling around them.
- Bachelor’s in CS/Engineering or equivalent experience.
- Production experience with Backstage (or a similar developer portal), service catalogs, and software templates.
- Depth in cloud + containers (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes), infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform or similar), and CI/CD.
- Proficient coding skills in at least one of TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, Java, or Python and familiarity with multi‑repo change management.
- A product mindset with empathy for developers; you seek feedback, simplify workflows, and bias toward adoption.
- Hands‑on with observability (Datadog Preferred but Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry will all work)
Benefits
- Competitive salary & equity compensation for full-time roles
- Unlimited PTO, company holidays, and quarterly mental health days
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental & vision, and parental leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- 401k benefits with employer matching contribution
- Offsite team retreats
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
DevOpsSREPlatform EngineeringBackstageAWSKubernetesTerraformCI/CDTypeScriptJavaScript
Soft skills
product mindsetempathy for developersfeedback seekingworkflow simplificationadoption bias
Certifications
Bachelor’s in CSBachelor’s in Engineering
