Bandana · 12 hours ago
Senior Platform Engineer
Brooklyn, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$180K/yr - $200K/yr
4+ years expBandana is a company dedicated to improving the livelihoods of hourly workers through transparency and trust. They are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to guide and champion their platform layer, ensuring the infrastructure can support their growing scale and enhancing the developer experience for their engineering team.
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Responsibilities
Scale, maintain, and build best-practices for our Kubernetes infrastructure on GCP
Support scaling our database infrastructure (Cloud SQL PostgreSQL with read replicas, connection pooling, replication monitoring)
Develop improved DevOps pipelines and process, including CI/CD pipelines, observability, deployment automation, standardized runbooks, and incident management
Lead best practices around security including secrets management and security hardening
Debugging production issues across the stack when things go sideways
Advise on and implement architectural decisions that balance reliability with our pace of iteration
Qualification
Required
4-7 years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years focused on platform/infrastructure/DevOps
Strong Kubernetes experience including k8s fundamentals and GKE specific k8s features (you've debugged node pressure, configured HPA, familiar with Flux/Helm/other tools in the K8 space, experience with Docker)
Experience with established cloud providers (GCP/AWS and features like serverless deployments)
Comfort with IaC (Terraform preferred)
Solid understanding of PostgreSQL operations (replication, connection pooling, performance tuning)
History of building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in support of high velocity teams
Opinions — We're a social and collaborative team so we want to hear what you have to say!
Preferred
GCP experience preferred, but AWS experience translates well
Experience with Elasticsearch
Familiarity with Next.js (pages router) deployment patterns and edge cases
You've built ETL pipelines, worked with data warehousing technology, and know how to deal with data at scale
Benefits
Medical/Dental/Vision insurance
Wellness benefit
Influence over technical direction at a company early enough for it to matter
A team that treats infrastructure as a first-class concern, not an afterthought
Lunch!
Company
Bandana
Bandana operates as a people-first online job platform.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$25.3MKey Investors
General Catalyst
2025-09-25Series A· $13M
2024-08-07Seed· $8.5M
2023-09-06Seed· $3.8M
Leadership Team
Caleb L.
Co-Founder & COO
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