Senior Staff Platform Engineer

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. Set technical direction for the platform as the most senior individual contributor on the team .

Posted 10/7/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $250,000 - $280,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaKubernetesPythonTypeScriptGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set technical direction for the platform as the most senior individual contributor on the team
Own architecture for consequential, cross-organizational infrastructure initiatives
Lead Istio service mesh rollout across the organization
Shape architecture for the Multi-Region Resilience Program
Own technical direction of the AI-enriched Service Catalog
Define architectural patterns, golden paths, and platform primitives for other engineering teams
Build shared components that improve delivery consistency across teams
Debug production incidents at the mesh layer and harden migration tooling
Resolve cross-team architectural conflicts
Coordinate multi-organization rollouts and resolve resourcing, sequencing, and environment-drift blockers
Own testing infrastructure strategy across iteration environments, pre-production confidence gates, and multi-service validation
Mentor Staff and Senior engineers on system design, migration strategy, and cross-team initiatives
Lead infrastructure consolidations and migrations, including CI/CD platform changes, artifact registry modernization, and dependency upgrades
Define metrics for platform adoption, incident trends, cost trajectory, and developer sentiment
Collaborate with senior engineering leadership and teams across organizational boundaries

Requirements

What you’ll need

12+ years in Platform, Infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles
Demonstrated ownership of at least one initiative spanning multiple teams or business units
Deep, production-proven expertise in Kubernetes/EKS, service mesh, and Infrastructure-as-Code at meaningful scale
Strong service mesh expertise, with Istio strongly preferred, including mTLS, traffic shaping, sidecar architecture, and multi-cluster rollout
Track record leading complex, multi-quarter technical programs from architecture through execution
Ability to produce cost/risk analysis and phased proposals securing leadership buy-in and funding
Experience debugging and resolving production incidents in distributed, multi-hop systems
Proficiency in at least one of Go, Python, TypeScript, or Java
Ability to influence without direct authority across engineering organizations
Experience mentoring Staff-level engineers and shaping broader engineering system-design practices
Experience with AI-native platform tooling, agentic tooling, MCP-backed APIs, and golden paths for deploying AI agents in production (preferred)
Track record driving large-scale cost or infrastructure consolidation initiatives with measurable business impact (preferred)
Experience with multi-region or high-availability architecture, including RPO/RTO planning and per-journey SLO definition (preferred)
Comfortable authoring RFCs and leadership-facing technical proposals and presenting to senior engineering leadership (preferred)
Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without restriction for any employer
Must indicate whether U.S. immigration sponsorship will be required
Must disclose any previous employment or contractor/consultant engagement with Hims & Hers or its subsidiaries

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary
Equity compensation for full-time roles
Unlimited PTO
Company holidays
Quarterly mental health days
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
Parental leave
Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
401k benefits with employer matching contribution
Offsite team retreats
Flexible/remote work approach
Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans