Role overview

Sr. Resource Plane Platform Engineer

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  • 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
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