Masabi

Lead Platform Engineer

Masabi

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇨🇴 Colombia

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudGrafanaPrometheusPuppetTerraform

About the role

  • Lead platform architecture and design conversations across infrastructure, deployment, and scalability
  • Develop and evolve infrastructure as code, configuration management, and shared tooling (Terraform, CloudFormation, Puppet)
  • Own the design and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, ensuring secure, scalable, fast delivery
  • Introduce and maintain automation-first practices across infrastructure and developer workflows
  • Help shape how we scale globally — including bootstrapping new environments and supporting multi-region growth
  • Define and embed platform-wide SLIs, SLOs, and alerting strategies aligned with product and engineering needs
  • Implement and extend observability tooling (Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, etc.)
  • Lead capacity planning and platform performance improvements
  • Influence architectural decisions across teams to support availability, scale, and cost-efficiency
  • Act as the technical lead within the platform group, partnering closely with the SRE Manager and Engineering Managers
  • Contribute to cross-team reliability initiatives, guiding others on best practices around platform maturity
  • Provide technical mentorship to engineers working on infrastructure, delivery, or reliability
  • Help shape the long-term platform engineering roadmap in collaboration with engineering leadership
  • Lead/contribute to incident response, blameless postmortems, and reliability reviews
  • Design and test disaster recovery and failover strategies for key systems
  • Participate in a shared, sustainable on-call rotation — fully compensated in addition to base salary

Requirements

  • Significant experience in platform, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles, ideally in scaling environments
  • Proven ability to design and evolve cloud-native platforms on AWS, including networking, IAM, and security best practices
  • Strong proficiency in Terraform, CloudFormation, or other infrastructure automation tools
  • Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines, developer enablement, and delivery tooling
  • Skilled at designing and implementing observability solutions for high-scale production systems
  • Experienced in driving technical initiatives across teams, influencing through credibility and clarity
  • A clear communicator, who works well in remote and async environments
  • Passionate about mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and collaborative problem solving
  • Pragmatic, delivery-focused, and comfortable navigating complex trade-offs
Benefits
  • 15 days paid vacation for each year plus 18 public holidays
  • Private Healthcare
  • Monthly team bonding allowance
  • Menopause support
  • Choice of a workstation
  • Ability to work for up to 3 months per year from any country in the world
  • Fun and collaborative environment with a focus on making a difference in the world
  • Access to a training allowance of up to $750 USD and $250 USD to spend on your home office every year.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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

Hard skills
infrastructure as codeconfiguration managementCI/CD pipelinesautomation-first practicesobservability solutionsdisaster recoveryfailover strategiescloud-native platformsnetworkingsecurity best practices
Soft skills
technical mentorshipclear communicationcollaborative problem solvinginfluencingcredibilityclaritydelivery-focusedpragmaticknowledge-sharingremote work