ShiftKey · 1 day ago

Senior Platform Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

4+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Guide and support less-experienced engineers, providing technical leadership and advice on platform architecture and best practices.

Designs and develops cross team applications. Performs coding, debugging, testing, and troubleshooting throughout the application development process

Define deliverables (stories) that can be completed within a finite timeframe.

Driving large-scale architectural changes to transition monolithic applications to microservices, ensuring scalability, modularity, and improved fault tolerance across distributed systems.

Architect, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable, and high-performance cloud infrastructure to support the deployment and operation of applications and services.

Work closely with engineering, SRE, and security teams to ensure platform stability and alignment with business needs and technical goals. Collaborate with US and Poland teams across regions.

Apply SRE principles, including monitoring, alerting, and automation, to improve system resilience, reduce toil, and enhance platform performance.

Develop, manage, and improve CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless integration and delivery of application updates.

Implement and maintain monitoring solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) to ensure high availability, detect issues early, and minimize system downtime.

Investigate and resolve infrastructure and platform issues, working proactively to mitigate potential problems before they impact production.

Proactively identify opportunities to improve the current state of projects and existing infrastructure; advocate for and implement enhancements by introducing new tools and technologies; and promote best practices in platform development and operations.

Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation to automate provisioning, scaling, and management of cloud resources.

Maintain thorough documentation of platform architecture, processes, and procedures to ensure knowledge transfer and streamline operations across teams.

Qualification

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Cloud infrastructureMicroservices architectureCI/CD pipelinesInfrastructure as codeSite Reliability EngineeringTerraformCloudFormationMonitoring solutionsPrometheusGrafanaELKTime management skills

Required

A Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent experience

4+ years of software engineering experience

Broad experience designing, programming, and implementing large information systems

Proven experience in transforming monolithic applications into microservices

Ability to provide in-depth evaluation and analysis of unique complex technological issues.

Proficient in cloud infrastructure and services, with strong knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (preferably AWS) and foundational experience in infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.

Basic understanding of SRE principles, including monitoring, alerting, and automation to enhance system resilience, optimize performance, and reduce operational toil

Experience in developing and managing CI/CD pipelines for streamlined application updates and in implementing monitoring solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) to maintain high availability and minimize system downtime

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Excellent organization and time management skills