Laurel

Staff Platform Engineer

Laurel

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaNew YorkUnited 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