EarnIn · 1 day ago
Staff Platform Engineer
Remote, US
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$207K/yr - $308K/yr
7+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Serve as a key architect and thought leader in the cloud infrastructure domain, guiding the team on best practices for building resilient, high-performance systems.
Mentor and coach senior engineers across the company in advanced cloud operations practices.
Provide oversight of hosted Linux and Windows systems, networks, databases, and applications, identifying and solving critical performance, scalability, and stability challenges across the company.
Design and develop reusable components and operational strategies to enhance cloud systems' scalability, performance, and monitoring.
Collaborate with other senior engineers to create technical solutions that address company-wide cloud challenges.
Lead the establishment and continuous evolution of infrastructure-as-code best practices, driving automation, self-healing, and security standards throughout the company’s cloud ecosystems.
Drive operational cost savings through service optimizations, autoscaling strategies, and distributed processing architectures, partnering with the finance team to ensure ongoing efficiency.
Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including security, engineering, and business teams, to ensure that operational strategies align with company-wide objectives.
Provide thought leadership in company-wide initiatives such as observability, automation, and disaster recovery.
Continuously evaluate existing tools and processes and lead efforts to socialize, present, and implement enhancements for optimal operational efficiency.
Develop high-quality documentation on best practices, installation, provisioning, and configuration.
Ensure organizational alignment on cloud operations standards.
Participate in and lead on-call rotations, using post-mortems to guide long-term improvements to system reliability.
Act as a liaison between cloud operations and business stakeholders, presenting technical information in an understandable format, ensuring alignment between technical decisions and business objectives.
Qualification
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Required
Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.
7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, managing large-scale, high-availability, customer-facing distributed systems.
Proven experience mentoring and guiding senior engineers, driving technical decisions, and leading company-wide cloud initiatives.
Mastery of public cloud providers, specifically AWS (EKS, DynamoDB, Aurora, Kinesis, etc.).
Strong expertise in containerized microservices running on Kubernetes, with the ability to guide the implementation of complex, scalable solutions.
Deep knowledge of automation and configuration management tools (Terraform, Ansible) with the ability to lead infrastructure-as-code initiatives.
Experience with advanced observability tools (DataDog, CloudWatch) and driving metrics-driven decisions across the organization.
Proven ability to drive cross-functional initiatives with engineering, product, and business teams to align cloud strategies with business goals.
Strong adherence to industry best practices around privacy and security, with a demonstrated ability to lead compliance efforts.
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EarnIn
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201-500 employees
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2023 (25)
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2021 (23)
2020 (34)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$190.1MKey Investors
Andreessen HorowitzMatrixFelicis
2018-12-20Series C· $125M
2017-09-21Series B· $39M
2017-01-09Series A· $22M
Leadership Team
Ram Palaniappan
CEO & Founder
Ofer Shaked
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