Platform Software Engineer

About this role

• We’re looking for a Platform Engineer to define and lead the technical direction of our platform as we scale 10x+ in enterprise customers
• This is a hands-on, high-impact role responsible for architecture, reliability, and developer experience across our Kubernetes-based infrastructure. You will solve hard technical problems, raise the engineering bar through your work, and be a key technical partner to product engineers across the company
• Design and implement scalable solutions within our Kubernetes-based platform for secure enterprise workloads
• Define and contribute to reliability initiatives: SLOs, capacity planning, and resilience improvements
• Identify and resolve system misconfigurations and architectural risks
• Build systems that support 10x customer growth with clear failure modes and mitigation strategies
• Own and continuously improve internal platform systems: deployments, environments, and developer tooling
• Drive improvements to reliability, observability, and operational workflows
• Act as a force multiplier for product engineers by building guardrails (not gates) and self-serve tooling
• Bring structure and rigor to complex infrastructure problems
• Contribute to internal engineering standards and design principles
• Work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and leadership to unblock and accelerate delivery- Enjoys being a technical owner with broad company impact
• (not just operating clusters, but growing them significantly from early-stage to production-critical workloads)
• Deep understanding of distributed systems tradeoffs
• Strong systems mindset
• Or startup that successfully scaled infrastructure
• Big tech → then startup
• Previously worked in:
• Extensive, production-grade Kubernetes scaling experience
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity
• You thrive in fast-paced environments. You are high-intensity and care a lot about what you do, and you’re ecstatic to work at a startup
• You are ambitious. You have fun solving probl...