Senior Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

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About the role

  • Senior platform engineer building and operating Virtasant’s production Kubernetes infrastructure. Owning cloud reliability, observability, migrations, and developer delivery platforms across remote Americas teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate production Kubernetes clusters, including networking, workload isolation, and multi-region topologies
  • Work with Kubernetes internals, resource quotas, scheduling, NetworkPolicy enforcement, and custom controllers or operators
  • Implement and operate service mesh capabilities, including mTLS, workload authentication and authorization, and traffic management
  • Optimize containerized workloads for performance, cost, and resource efficiency
  • Write, refactor, and maintain production Go, Python, or Java services, controllers, and middleware
  • Build HTTP, REST, and gRPC interfaces for internal engineering teams
  • Write unit and integration tests
  • Lead incident response, investigate root causes, and author postmortems
  • Troubleshoot production systems using logs, metrics, traces, and profiling tools
  • Define and drive SLOs and actionable alerting
  • Own infrastructure as code and maintain reusable modules
  • Build and improve CI/CD and GitOps delivery workflows
  • Plan and execute cloud migration initiatives while maintaining reliability and minimizing downtime
  • Build and maintain metrics, dashboards, alerting policies, and distributed tracing
  • Partner with product, security, and infrastructure teams on requirements and architecture
  • Contribute to design reviews, set technical direction, and mentor engineers

Requirements

  • 6+ years of professional experience in software, platform, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering
  • Significant experience operating production distributed systems
  • Demonstrated experience building and operating production Kubernetes platforms
  • Production experience writing Go, Python, or Java
  • Experience taking systems from ambiguous starting points to production
  • Experience migrating production cloud services between providers or environments
  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals, including CNI networking, NetworkPolicy, resource management, and cluster behavior under load
  • Hands-on experience with a service mesh such as Istio, Envoy, or Linkerd, plus mTLS and workload identity
  • Solid Linux fundamentals, including cgroups and resource management
  • Infrastructure as code experience at scale with Terraform or equivalent
  • Production experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure
  • Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and query languages such as PromQL
  • Production experience with relational databases, including PostgreSQL or managed Postgres-compatible services
  • Docker and container tooling experience
  • Strong debugging and performance profiling skills
  • Experience with Go testing frameworks such as Ginkgo and Gomega preferred
  • Experience building Kubernetes controllers or operators preferred
  • Additional Python strength preferred
  • Experience with IAM technologies such as SSO, Keycloak, OIDC, SAML, or Vault preferred
  • Experience designing high availability and disaster recovery across regions or providers preferred
  • Experience with monorepos and build systems such as Bazel preferred
  • Ability to read Java preferred
  • Exposure to SOC 2 or GDPR preferred
  • Experience with Alibaba Cloud highly preferred
  • Experience with Apache Spark and Apache Flink highly preferred
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
  • Clear written and verbal communication
  • Ability to work independently within a distributed team
  • Comfort working in a fast-moving, highly technical environment

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

ApacheAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaGRPCJavaKubernetesLinuxPostgresPrometheusPythonSparkTerraformVaultGo

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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