Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Demandbase as a Platform Engineer and play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines. You will collaborate with development teams to streamline the software delivery process, optimize performance, and ensure the reliability and scalability of our applications. This role requires extensive experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and specific technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS/GCP services. You will be responsible for designing and managing Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code. Demandbase offers a dynamic work environment with opportunities for professional growth and development. We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and encourage applications from all backgrounds.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Mathematics, Statistics from a top engineering institution
• 12+ years of experience in a similar role, with a strong focus on cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including cluster setup, configuration, and management
• Proficiency in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab CI/CD, or similar
• Familiarity with templating using IDPs such as Backstage
• Solid understanding of infrastructure as code principles and experience with Terraform
• Experience with AWS services, including EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, etc
• Hands on experience with GCP services, including GKE, BigQuery, IAM, Networking etc
• Familiarity with Airflow for workflow orchestration and scheduling
• Knowledge of Istio or similar service mesh technologies for microservices architecture
• Strong scripting skills in languages such as Bash, Python, or similar
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog etc
• Experience utilizing CNCF tools such as Flux, Argo Rollouts, and External Secrets
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a strong product mindset

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters to orchestrate containerized applications
• Design, deploy, and manage Backstage Scaffolders to alleviate toil from internal engineering teams
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate software build, test, and deployment processes
• Utilize Terraform for infrastructure as code to provision and manage AWS resources
• Implement and manage Airflow workflows for data pipeline orchestration and scheduling
• Configure and maintain Istio service mesh for microservices communication, traffic management, and security
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability
• Monitor and troubleshoot production systems, ensuring high availability and performance
• Implement security best practices and compliance standards across the infrastructure
• Provide support and guidance to development teams on infrastructure-related issues and best practices
• Document infrastructure configurations, processes, and procedures
• Empowering development teams to clear operational hurdles by setting best practices, creating reusable templates and modules, and writing clear documentation in a quickly evolving “shift left” culture

Preferred Qualifications

• Nice to have experience in designing/implementing  ETL data pipelines using open source platforms
• Nice to have experience with other cloud providers such as Azure

Benefits

We have offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and India, as well as a team in the UK, and allow employees to work remotely