Role overview

Senior Platform Engineer

Requirements and responsibilities

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Platform Architecture & System Design

  • Design and evolve cloud-native platform architecture supporting multi-tenant SaaS applications
  • Define infrastructure standards, deployment patterns, and platform best practices
  • Lead architecture reviews and evaluate technical tradeoffs across reliability, performance, security, and cost
  • Design highly available and fault-tolerant systems across multiple environments

AWS Infrastructure

  • Architect and manage large-scale AWS environments
  • Design networking architectures including VPCs, subnets, security groups, routing, load balancing, and connectivity patterns
  • Build secure deployment architectures aligned with security and compliance requirements
  • Implement disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity strategies

Kubernetes & Platform Operations

  • Design and operate production Kubernetes environments
  • Build scalable container orchestration strategies
  • Optimize cluster performance, networking, autoscaling, and workload scheduling
  • Improve developer experience through platform automation and self-service tooling

AI & GPU Infrastructure

  • Support AI and ML workloads running on AWS
  • Design infrastructure for model training and inference workloads
  • Manage GPU provisioning, utilization, scaling, and cost optimization
  • Collaborate with AI teams to improve deployment and operational efficiency

Reliability & Performance

  • Define and measure SLIs, SLOs, and operational metrics
  • Implement monitoring, observability, logging, alerting, and incident management practices
  • Drive performance optimization and capacity planning initiatives
  • Lead root cause analysis and reliability improvement effort

Infrastructure Automation

  • Build Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform
  • Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines
  • Automate provisioning, deployments, scaling, and operational workflows

Cost Optimization

  • Continuously evaluate cloud spending
  • Develop capacity planning models
  • Balance performance, reliability, and infrastructure costs

Required Experience

  • 6-8 years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.
  • Proven experience designing and operating production-scale SaaS platforms.
  • Strong expertise in AWS architecture, networking, security, and deployment strategies.
  • Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, cluster operations, autoscaling, and workload management.
  • Experience designing highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems.
  • Strong understanding of system design, architecture trade-offs, and platform scalability.
  • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
  • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation frameworks.
  • Strong Linux, networking, and systems engineering fundamentals.
  • Experience implementing observability, monitoring, logging, and incident management practices.
  • Experience with disaster recovery planning, backup strategies, and business continuity design.
  • Experience with cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, and resource utilization management.
  • Hands-on experience supporting AI/ML workloads in production environments.
  • Experience designing, provisioning, and operating GPU-based infrastructure for model training and/or inference workloads.
  • Experience managing and optimizing AWS Bedrock, OpenSearch, and DocumentDB or equivalent platforms.
  • Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, or similar languages.
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