Senior Resource Plane Platform Engineer

Details

• Own the design, implementation, and operation of shared Resource Plane services used across the organization
• Operate and evolve Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Elasticsearch platforms in production
• Apply SRE principles to ensure availability, scalability, reliability, and safe upgrades of stateful systems • Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps-based automation for provisioning and lifecycle management
• Define and enforce supported usage patterns, guardrails, and golden paths for platform consumers
• Integrate Resource Plane services into the Internal Developer Platform for self-service consumption • Participate in on-call rotation (initially may include 24x7 weekly rotation; target state is business-hours primary)
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements for owned services
• Collaborate closely with Kubernetes Platform Team, IDP and other teams as required
• Act as a senior technical voice in architecture discussions and platform roadmap planning
• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology
• Senior-level experience operating production-grade, stateful distributed systems
• Strong hands-on experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Elasticsearch
• Proven experience running infrastructure primarily in on-prem environments
• Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, and storage fundamentals
• Deep experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred)
• Experience with GitOps workflows and declarative infrastructure management
• Solid grasp of reliability engineering concepts (SLOs, error budgets, alerting, capacity planning)
• Experience working with Kubernetes-adjacent platforms and services
• Ability to operate independently and take ownership in a small team environment
• Experience designing shared platform services consumed by multiple product teams
• Familiarity with IDP concepts and developer self-service platforms
• Experience migrating on-prem workloads toward cloud-native or hybrid models
• Exposure to security, compliance, and governance requirements for shared infrastructure
• Prior experience in staff- or principal-level technical leadership roles