Strive for Startups

Platform Engineer

• Own our Google Cloud infrastructure: GKE clusters, Cloud SQL, PubSub, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and the services that run on top of them
• Lead our logging infrastructure rebuild — moving from a high-cost, high-convenience setup toward a tiered architecture that balances cost and debuggability
• Drive infra cost optimization as an ongoing owned responsibility, not a one-time project
• Manage and improve our CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) and deployment automation
• Own our observability stack: Prometheus, Grafana, alerting, SLOs
• Review our security posture in Google Security Command Center, implement improvements, and own our response to security audits and customer security reviews
• Configure and maintain IAM, GCP Secret Manager, VPC firewall rules, Kubernetes network policies, and namespace isolation across our private GKE cluster
• Design and practice disaster recovery procedures
• Automate away operational toil - if something happens more than twice, it should not happen manually a third time
• Write documentation and playbooks; we prefer collaborative problem-solving over working in silos

Senior Platform Engineer – Infrastructure, Security