Remote Principal Platform Engineer
at Raft

Summary

Join our passionate team of high-impact problem solvers as a Principal Platform Engineer to support our customers and build digital solutions that impact the lives of millions of Americans.

Requirements

• Obtain Security+ within the first 90 days of employment with Raft
• Bachelor Degree in computer science, Mathematics, or equivalent technical degree; or equivalent industry experience

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance for the design and architecture of provisioning/maintaining Kubernetes clusters at a massive scale
• Implement rapid proof of concept and pilots of new capabilities to demonstrate the feasibility of new solutions to application developers and the rest of the platform integration team
• Work closely with the client and other key stakeholders to provide strategic input and help navigate needs and tradeoffs to build extensible digital solutions
• Ideally, 5+ years' in-depth experience maintaining production-grade Kubernetes clusters with multiple teams using the clusters for development
• 5+ years' experience building production services with cloud infrastructure such as AWS (preferred, or at least last 1-2 years), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud
• 3+ years' experience with modern programming languages such as Java, Python, or Go
• Managed infrastructure and developed APIs/platform services for tenants to use container services
• Linux experience
• Comfortable provisioning and debugging complex CI/CD pipelines
• Extensive experience in containerizing applications using Docker and orchestrating them on managed platforms
• Experienced in building data-intensive platforms and using open-source technologies
• Enjoy collaborating with the team to plan story points, sprint themes, etc
• Experience with at least one agile methodology, including Scrum or Kanban
• Loves to demo work to team and stakeholders

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Fully covered healthcare, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) and company match
• Take as you need PTO + 11 paid holidays
• Education & training benefits
• Annual budget for your tech/gadgets needs
• Monthly box of yummy snacks to eat while doing meaningful work
• Remote, hybrid, and flexible work options
• Team off-site in fun places!
• Generous Referral Bonuses