Platform Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own our Kubernetes platform end to end. Design, run and scale multi-region clusters and the cloud infrastructure underneath them, mostly on GCP. We target 99.99% availability, and trading on the platform depends on low latency.
• Run the full stack, old and new: virtual machines in our own data centers, containers and orchestration in the cloud, and everything that connects them.
• Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform, CI/CD and GitOps, so every change gets reviewed, tested and rolled back like any other code.
• Build and run the APIs and internal tools the rest of the team builds on, so our software engineers can ship without waiting on anyone.
• Own monitoring and alerting across the platform with Grafana, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry. Catch degradation before it turns into an incident, and when something does break, lead a blameless post-mortem and make sure the fix lands in the system.
• Plan capacity and cost as traffic grows, and make the calls on IAM, cloud networking and multi-region design.
• Work alongside our systems engineer and closely with the network and software teams, and raise the bar for how the whole infrastructure team works.

Requirements

• Strong cloud experience, GCP preferred: networking, IAM, cost and capacity planning, multi-region architecture.
• Depth on both sides of the stack: production Docker and container orchestration, and virtualization (VMware, KVM, Hyper-V or similar). You're as comfortable at the VM layer as you are in a Helm chart.
• Real API design experience. You've designed, versioned and run APIs that other engineers depended on in production.

What we're looking for

• At least 7 years in platform engineering, SRE or infrastructure, with production systems you were responsible for.
• Production Kubernetes under real load: deploying it, scaling it, hardening it, and debugging it when it misbehaves.
• Terraform, plus CI/CD and GitOps tools like ArgoCD and GitHub Actions.
• Enough networking to hold your own with our network team: IP routing, VPCs, DNS and load balancing.
• AI tools as part of how you work, whether that's writing code, automating ops or digging through an outage. We'd like to hear what's helped and what hasn't.
• You lead without needing the title. You take responsibility for outcomes, argue for the better design when a quick fix is tempting, and use what you learn to push the team forward.

Compensation & Benefits

Competitive salary (top of the local market where you are located) and meaningful equity in a mission-driven, investor-backed company A high-ownership environment with a steep but well-supported learning curve, and a team that writes things down.