Senior Infrastructure / Platform Engineer to $6500
- Senior Platform & Infrastructure Engineer
- This role is a software-first approach to systems. You aren't just managing servers; you are building the platform that runs the company. It requires a blend of high-level architectural thinking and deep-tier systems automation.
- The Core Identity
- Software-First Infra: You treat infrastructure like a product, using software engineering principles (code reviews, testing, CI/CD) to manage the cloud.
- Developer Enablement: You build self-service tooling so product engineers can deploy and scale their own services safely.
- Architectural Guard: You own the long-term reliability and performance strategy, ensuring the system scales as the business grows.
- The Technical Stack
- Category
- Core Technologies
- Cloud Platform
- AWS or GCP (Identity, IAM, VPCs, Managed Services)
- Orchestration
- Kubernetes (Deep internals: CRDs, Operators, Networking, ingress)
- Languages
- Go or Python (for automation); TypeScript/Node (for tooling/CDK)
- IaC
- Terraform (Primary) or Pulumi
- Data & Storage
- PostgreSQL (Performance tuning, replication, schema evolution)
- Observability
- Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog (Tracing, SLIs, Alerting)
- CI/CD
- GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or CircleCI
- What This Is vs. Is Not
- ✅ IS: Designing a Kubernetes operator to automate database migrations.
- ❌ NOT: Manually clicking in the AWS Console to resize a disk.
- ✅ IS: Improving developer velocity by building a "one-command" staging environment.
- ❌ NOT: Being the "gatekeeper" who must approve every deployment ticket.
- The Ideal Candidate Profile
- 5+ Years in Software or Systems Engineering with a focus on cloud-native platforms.
- Operator Mindset: You've run high-traffic systems and know how they break at 3 AM (and how to design them so they don't).
- Tool Builder: You prefer writing a Go service to automate a task rather than writing a documentation page on how to do it manually.
- Would you like me to help you map your specific experience with these tools (K8s, Terraform, Postgres) into a cohesive interview narrative?
Required skills experience
| Kubernetes | 4 years |
Required languages
| English | C1 - Advanced |
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