
Staff Platform Engineer
Laurel
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $200,000 - $250,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Write and maintain Terraform modules and Go libraries that other teams use to manage their infrastructure.
- Develop and manage Kubernetes, Docker, and compute infrastructure for all of engineering.
- Build and improve preview environments, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and other developer-experience automation.
- Design and implement infrastructure for high availability and regional resiliency.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and help drive improvements to incident response processes.
- Help teams improve their reliability, security, and observability through documentation, pull requests, and purpose-built tooling.
- Work with vendors, engineers, and stakeholders to improve the cost efficiency of our services.
- Write backend code (primarily TypeScript) to help teams deliver functionality when there are deadlines or resource constraints.
- Attend quarterly offsites (required travel), team standups, and other company meetings.
- Raise the bar for engineering quality and advocate for best practices across the organization.
- Implement fundamental security controls, conduct security reviews, and ensure the overall stability and compliance of the platform.
Requirements
- Experience with Kubernetes and AWS
- Development experience with Terraform, Go, and TypeScript
- Experience working in startup environments
- Significant experience with Linux administration
- Familiarity with Git and infrastructure-as-code workflows
- Experience participating in a regular engineering on-call rotation
- Experience with CI/CD tooling and platforms
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical/dental/vision coverage with covered premiums
- 401(k)
- Additional benefits including wellness, commuter, and FSA stipends
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
TerraformGoKubernetesDockerTypeScriptLinux administrationCI/CDinfrastructure-as-codesecurity controlsincident response
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingadvocacy for best practicesreliability improvementdocumentationteamworkstakeholder engagementcost efficiencyincident management