Staff Platform Engineer

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and lead cross-cutting initiatives that improve developer experience, reliability, security, and cost.
• Resolve ambiguous problems, validate assumptions, align stakeholders, and drive cross-team decisions to closure.
• Build AI-augmented tooling, guardrails, policy-as-code, and infrastructure primitives that agents can safely use.
• Own Infrastructure-as-Code standards for Kubernetes, AWS, and GCP using Terraform, Helm, and Kustomize.
• Evolve CI/CD standards using Argo CD, Argo Workflows, Argo Rollouts, and GitHub Actions.
• Drive observability with Datadog and Amplitude, set SLOs, and own dashboards.
• Lead response to complex cross-system P0 incidents and turn postmortems into durable improvements.
• Address architectural debt and evaluate when systems should evolve, be re-platformed, or be deprecated.
• Develop proposals and proofs of concept for high-leverage platform opportunities.
• Mentor engineers, improve team leverage, contribute to hiring practices, and connect platform investments to customer and business needs.

What We Are Looking For

• 8 or more years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering with deep hands-on cloud infrastructure experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or a related field.
• Experience leading high-complexity, cross-team infrastructure initiatives with measurable outcomes.
• Deep production experience operating Kubernetes and containerized applications at meaningful scale.
• Strong programming ability in at least one language; Golang or Python is preferred.
• Fluency with Infrastructure-as-Code tooling, including Terraform.
• Strong command of AWS core services, networking, and security fundamentals.
• GCP and/or Azure experience is a plus.
• Deep familiarity with GitOps workflows and the CNCF ecosystem, including Argo, Helm, Backstage, or Envoy.
• Experience setting technical standards adopted by other teams without direct authority.
• Strong communication, collaborative problem-solving, ambiguity navigation, and continuous-learning skills.

Compensation

• The role is eligible for equity, benefits, and other forms of compensation.
• Colorado total target cash range is $198,000–$299,000, inclusive of bonus or commission.
• New York City and San Francisco Bay Area total target cash range is $220,000–$331,000, inclusive of bonus or commission.
• California outside the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington state total target cash range is $198,000–$299,000, inclusive of bonus or commission.

Washington Benefits

• Washington employees receive unlimited PTO, 10 to 13 holidays annually, medical, dental, and vision plans, and a company-sponsored 401(k) plan.