Platform Engineer

Summary

Join UJET's Core Platform team as a skilled Platform Engineer and contribute to shaping our architecture, reliability, and scalability. Bridge the gap between Application Engineering and DevOps. Implement infrastructure to break down a monolithic API server into scalable microservices. Proactively manage and enhance the developer experience around Kubernetes. Design, construct, and improve modern CI/CD pipelines and automated workflows. Create automation testing strategies and implement robust integration and infrastructure-level testing for distributed systems. Work closely with application engineering and DevOps teams to improve developer effectiveness, reliability, and operational ease. Offer technical insight on system architecture and design, ensuring robustness, scalability, observability, and maintainability.

Requirements

• Proficiency in at least one high-level programming language (Go or Ruby preferred; Python, Java, C#, etc. acceptable)
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in decomposing monolithic applications into microservices
• Solid knowledge and practical experience with Kubernetes
• Proven ability to build and optimize CI/CD pipelines
• Capacity to design and implement infrastructure-level and integration-level automated testing
• Strong understanding of systems design principles, including scalability, observability, maintainability, and reliability in distributed environments

Responsibilities

• Implement infrastructure easing the breakdown of a monolithic API server into scalable, resilient microservices
• Proactively manage and enhance the developer experience around Kubernetes-based deployments and infrastructure
• Design, construct, and improve modern CI/CD pipelines and automated workflows
• Create automation testing strategies and implement robust integration and infrastructure-level testing for distributed systems
• Work closely with application engineering and DevOps teams to improve developer effectiveness, reliability, and operational ease
• Offer technical insight on system architecture and design, ensuring robustness, scalability, observability, and maintainability

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation)
• Knowledge of application observability and monitoring solutions (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Experience in enhancing engineering productivity through internal tooling and automation

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Work/life balance
• Stock options
• Engaging team events