Platform Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States

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$160,000 – $240,000Compensation

Mid-level (3 to 4 years), Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level

Full TimeJob Type

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Insurance, Artificial IntelligenceIndustries

Requirements

Candidates should have 3+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE, with at least 1 year of experience architecting AWS infrastructure. A minimum of 1 year of experience writing application layer code and familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation are required. Understanding of AWS networking, including VPCs and VPNs, is necessary, along with a proven ability to drive engineering best practices for application performance, monitoring, and alerting. Experience improving CI/CD pipelines and local development tooling is also expected. Nice-to-have qualifications include a deep understanding of Postgres performance and familiarity with compliance standards like SOC 2.

Responsibilities

The Platform Engineer will be responsible for shaping the company's cloud infrastructure, ensuring systems are reliable, scalable, and secure, and executing with best practices to support explosive growth. This includes implementing solutions for blue-green deployments, VPNs for employees, and Postgres observability tooling. The role involves improving CI/CD pipelines and local development tooling to enhance developer experience. Additionally, the engineer will advise on best practices for application performance, monitoring, and alerting, and potentially contribute to Postgres performance optimization and compliance standards.