Platform Engineer – Early Career

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. Design, build, and operate backend infrastructure behind developer-facing services .

Posted 11/2/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in backend infrastructure design and operation, with a strong focus on continuous integration, deployment to Kubernetes, and cloud environments. Capable of writing maintainable code and improving software distribution processes while ensuring service uptime and performance.

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Kubernetes DeploymentContinuous IntegrationCloud ExperienceBackend Infrastructure DesignService Performance Management

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Hard Skills

ContainersCI PipelinesWriting Small ServicesOperating Systems KnowledgeNetworks KnowledgeDatabases KnowledgeDistributed Systems KnowledgeInfrastructure as CodeGitHub Actions InternalsTerraform

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationIndependent Decision-Making

Tools & Technologies

Google CloudAWSAzure

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsKubernetesTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and operate backend infrastructure behind developer-facing services
Work on the deploy path, CI, and preview environments
Build internal improvements to ship services faster and reduce CI time and cost
Write software that runs correctly and efficiently
Own service uptime and performance
Add tests and monitoring for owned code
Participate in the team’s on-call rotation
Work alongside a senior engineer on EAS infrastructure

Requirements

What you’ll need

Early-career engineering experience
Experience with containers, CI pipelines, and writing small services
Built a real end-to-end service or pipeline used by others
Comfortable with continuous integration at scale
Experience deploying to Kubernetes
Cloud experience; Google Cloud preferred in practice, with AWS, Azure, or a home lab experience transferable
Knowledge of operating systems, networks, databases, and distributed systems
Deep experience in at least one low-level area: containers, CI internals, Kubernetes deploys, or infrastructure as code
Comfortable writing code
Ability to make sound independent decisions and improve software-building and distribution processes
Ability to write healthy, maintainable services
Ability to communicate clearly through documentation, GitHub reviews, blog posts, and other writing
Experience using agents for real work and explaining validation performed before trusting results
Bonus: experience with GitHub Actions internals or Terraform

Benefits

Comp & perks

Remote work in the United States
On-call rotation participation