Senior Staff Cloud Platform Engineer

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. Set the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for Infrastructure Services .

Posted 10/6/2026full-timeRemote • United States, CanadaSenior💰 $230,000 - $334,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in setting multi-year infrastructure strategy and architecture, with a strong focus on cloud cost management, incident response, and automation. Proficient in mentoring engineering teams and driving organizational improvements in reliability and operational efficiency.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Multi-Year Infrastructure StrategyProduction-Scale Kubernetes ExperienceInfrastructure as Code (Terraform)Incident Management and Disaster RecoveryCloud Cost Reduction Strategies

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Hard Skills

KubernetesTerraformGoAutoscalingGitOpsWorkload IdentitySLIs and SLOsIncident ResponseCapacity AutomationRBAC

Soft Skills

MentoringTechnical LeadershipCommunicationCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

EKSCloud PlatformsAI-Assisted Operations

Industry Keywords

Infrastructure ServicesTechnical StrategyDesign DocumentsCross-Organization CollaborationDisaster Recovery

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudKubernetesTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for Infrastructure Services
Shape roadmap and investment decisions, including build-versus-buy decisions
Define patterns, standards, and guardrails across compute, network and edge, and stateful services
Represent Infrastructure Services in cross-organization reviews with product engineering, security, and finance
Serve as the senior technical voice for the platform across the company
Write design documents and prototypes, review complex designs, and remain hands-on technically
Serve as an escalation point for major incidents
Drive organization-wide improvements to incident management, reliability targets, and disaster recovery
Lead cloud cost, capacity, and efficiency strategy with measurable goals
Drive automation and AI-assisted operations to reduce organizational toil
Mentor Staff and Senior engineers
Raise the bar on design review and engineering practices
Help hire and develop infrastructure leaders

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience setting technical direction across multiple teams or an entire organization
Experience owning multi-year infrastructure strategy or architecture
Production-scale Kubernetes experience in multi-cluster, multi-tenant, customer-traffic-bearing environments; EKS or similar managed platforms preferred
Deep knowledge of autoscaling, admission control, GitOps, workload identity, and fleet-wide cluster upgrades
Working fluency in networking, edge services, and stateful data systems
Experience defining SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets and driving organizational adoption
Experience improving incident response, post-incident learning, and disaster recovery across an organization
Demonstrable cloud cost reduction through capacity automation, right-sizing, architecture changes, or commitment strategy
Experience partnering with finance on forecasting and tradeoffs
Experience driving workload identity, least-privilege IAM and RBAC, credential rotation, and strong multi-tenant isolation
Proficiency in Go or a similar language
Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform
Track record automating complex, high-toil operational workflows at fleet scale
Ability to write strategy and design documents, present to senior leaders, resolve technical disagreements, and build alignment
Experience mentoring Senior and Staff engineers and contributing to hiring and technical-talent evaluation
Legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada; no work authorization, relocation assistance, or visa sponsorship provided
Successful completion of a background check required

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health benefits
Dental benefits
401(k) or RRSP retirement program
Generous paid time off
Equity grant / RSU program
Incentive programs, where applicable
Maternity and parental leave top-up programs
Retirement matching program
Free 1Password account
Paid volunteer days
Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly
Remote-first work environment
Travel for in-person engagement, including offsites, team meetings, and customer/industry events