Kalepa

Senior Platform Engineer – Infrastructure

Kalepa

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $170,000 - $210,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

CloudDistributed SystemsDockerEC2PostgresPythonTerraform

About the role

  • Work on the infrastructure and tooling that power our core platform.
  • Maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate operational workflows, and ensure security and compliance to industry standards.
  • Improve infrastructure performance and reliability, monitoring and optimizing system cost.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to standardize environments and deployment patterns.
  • Maintain observability and incident response processes.
  • Ensure the scalability of cloud-based systems as we continue to grow.
  • Collaborate with a global team of full-stack, data, ML, and DevOps engineers to build scalable backend solutions.

Requirements

  • Have 5+ years of software engineering or dev-ops experience, ideally with time spent working on CI/CD pipelines, security, performance and infrastructure.
  • Embody hustle and grit, you're excellent at your craft and relentless in pursuing it.
  • Take full ownership of your work and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight.
  • Communicate proactively, surfacing blockers, asking the right questions, keeping stakeholders in the loop.
  • Thrive on experimentation: you're comfortable testing ideas, measuring results, and iterating quickly on problems no one has solved before.
  • Have strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving.
  • Know Python (our main stack), though we're open to strong candidates from other OO backgrounds.
  • Have experience with serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments.
  • Are comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.
  • Know terraform, IaaC best practices, Docker or similar tools.
  • Bonus: experience with LLMs/generative AI, distributed systems
Benefits
  • Competitive salary (based on experience level)*
  • Significant equity options package.
  • Work with an ambitious, smart, global, and fun team to transform a $1T global industry.
  • 20 days of PTO a year.
  • Global team offsites.
  • Gym reimbursement. Phone reimbursement.
  • Student stipend.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
CI/CDPythonsystem designdebuggingproblem-solvingserverless technologiesasynchronous workflowsrelational databasesPostgreSQLterraform
Soft skills
ownershipcommunicationexperimentationproactivecollaborationgrithustledriveadaptabilityproblem-solving