Senior Platform Engineer

OpenHands

Senior Platform Engineer building and maintaining OpenHands, an open-source AI platform for engineering teams. Work includes infrastructure, orchestration, and enterprise deployment.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $175,000 - $225,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPostgresRedisTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and maintain our self-hosted deployment product: installation, configuration, and upgrades
Support customer POCs and self-hosted deployments, helping ensure successful rollouts in diverse environments
Write clean, well-tested, production-grade code and take features from design through to deployment
Own the Cloud infrastructure running our SaaS product
Debug complex cross-system issues and deliver sustainable fixes
Collaborate closely with teammates across Platform and the broader engineering team to execute on the platform roadmap
Contribute to infrastructure standards, observability, and reliability practices
Help grow a strong engineering culture through code review, documentation, and knowledge sharing

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ years of professional software engineering experience
Deep experience with Kubernetes and Helm
Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)
Solid understanding of networking, security, and operational experience with PostgreSQL and Redis
Familiarity with authentication and identity systems (SSO, SAML, OIDC, RBAC) is a plus
Experience with Replicated or similar embedded Kubernetes Installer platforms is a plus
Track record of shipping reliable, production-grade platform or infrastructure systems
Interest in AI/LLM-powered developer tools and open-source software (bonus if you've contributed to OSS)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Fully covered U.S. health, vision, and dental insurance
Unmetered PTO + holidays
Competitive compensation

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Hard Skills & Tools

KubernetesHelmcloud infrastructureGCPAWSAzureinfrastructure-as-codeTerraformPulumiPostgreSQL

Soft Skills

collaborationcode reviewdocumentationknowledge sharing