Copado · 2 hours ago
Sr Platform Engineer
New Orleans, LA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expCopado is the leading DevOps platform for Salesforce, seeking a highly skilled Senior Platform Engineer to join their growing engineering team. This role involves designing, building, and maintaining core infrastructure and tooling, tackling complex technical challenges, and mentoring junior team members to enhance developer experience.
CollaborationDeveloper PlatformDeveloper ToolsDevOpsIT ManagementSoftware
Responsibilities
Lead Design & Implementation: Architect, design, and lead the implementation of highly scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure (primarily Google Cloud and AWS) using advanced Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles (e.g., Terraform)
Drive Automation & Optimization: Develop, maintain, and evangelize automation best practices for deployment, monitoring, alerting, and operational tasks across our entire platform
Elevate Developer Experience: Proactively identify pain points and build robust, innovative internal tools, sophisticated CI/CD pipelines, and optimized development environments to significantly improve developer productivity and release velocity
Ensure Resiliency & Performance: Implement, manage, and optimize comprehensive monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions to proactively identify, diagnose, and resolve complex issues, ensuring the highest levels of availability and performance for our services
Champion Security: Collaborate closely with security teams to embed and enforce advanced security best practices across all infrastructure, systems, and applications
Expert Troubleshooting: Act as a subject matter expert for diagnosing and resolving the most challenging infrastructure and application issues, participating in on-call rotations with a focus on root cause analysis and prevention
Mentor & Collaborate: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence. Work cross-functionally with software engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to translate complex requirements into robust, scalable solutions
Innovate & Strategize: Research, evaluate, and advocate for new technologies, tools, and methodologies that can strategically improve our platform's capabilities and operational efficiency
Define Best Practices: Create and maintain comprehensive, high-quality documentation for infrastructure, systems, and operational procedures, setting standards for the team
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in a Senior Platform Engineering, Lead DevOps Engineering, or Senior Site Reliability Engineering role
Deep, hands-on expertise in cloud platforms, particularly Google Cloud and AWS. Proficient with a wide range of services including: AWS: EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch. Google Cloud: Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, VPC, IAM, Cloud Monitoring/Logging, Cloud Service Mesh
Advanced proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, including module development and state management best practices
Extensive experience designing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines for complex, distributed systems
Exceptional scripting and programming skills in at least one language (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, Java, Bash), with a focus on writing maintainable, scalable code
Strong expertise with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes (GKE / EKS preferred), including operational best practices
In-depth knowledge of monitoring, logging, and tracing tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Coralogix), with experience setting up advanced alerts and dashboards
Comprehensive understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing, VPNs, routing, security groups, firewalls) and their application in cloud environments
Expertise with version control systems (Git) and collaborative development workflows
Proven ability to lead technical initiatives, solve highly complex problems, and make sound architectural decisions with a proactive, results-oriented approach
Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences and influence technical direction
Experience mentoring junior engineers and fostering a collaborative team environment
Preferred
Prior experience with Salesforce platform development, architecture, or administration
Expertise in database administration (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL databases)
Demonstrated experience with security best practices, compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP), and vulnerability management
Active contributions to open-source projects or a strong technical blog/portfolio
Benefits
Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
Company
Copado
Copado is an end-to-end native DevOps platform built for Salesforce.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$270.83MKey Investors
Insight PartnersInsight Partners,Salesforce Ventures
2021-09-13Series C· $140M
2021-02-17Series B· $96M
2020-06-18Series B· $26M
Leadership Team
Ted Elliott
Chief Executive Officer
Walker Mitchell
CFO
Recent News
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