Remote
Staff Platform Engineer
About this role
📋 Description System & Platform Design: Infra topology, scaling, deploy graph, DB ownership. Guardrail Engineering: Validation gates, idempotency checks, drift detectors. Escalation Tier: Diagnose novel failures—lag, DLQs, view chains. Reliability, Capacity & Cost: 500K events/sec, load tests, SLOs. Security & Secrets Boundary: IAM/IRSA, secret rotation, auth chain. Agent-Fleet Operability: Align skills and runbooks with reality.
Incident Leadership: Lead incidents and record fixes as runbooks. 🎯 Requirements 5+ years operating production Kubernetes and AWS at scale. Terraform and GitOps/Kustomize, with idempotent automation. Incident judgment: real incident-response on distributed failures. Data systems fluency: Postgres, columnar store, and log/stream behavior. Agent fluency: guardrails and checks with AI agents. Instincts: prefer automated checks; avoid manual steps.
🎁 Benefits Salary USD 190000-230000 base plus equity. High growth startup with impact. Work from home or anywhere. Fun, passionate team. Competitive compensation and equity. Flexible paid time off.
Source listing: empllo_remote