Senior Platform Engineer

Summary

Join OpsLevel, a leading internal developer portal, and become a key member of our fully-remote team. As a Platform Engineer, you will own our AWS infrastructure, automate processes, maintain CI/CD pipelines, and contribute to client tools. You will lead efforts in platform reliability, observability, and cost management, working closely with application engineers. The ideal candidate thrives in high-ownership environments, possesses strong AWS expertise, and has experience with infrastructure-as-code. We value a growth mindset, focus, empathy, and intellectual honesty. If you're passionate about building reliable and efficient infrastructure, we encourage you to apply!

Requirements

• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred)
• Solid AWS expertise and cloud-native service deployment, including networking (VPCs, Tailscale) and databases (RDS)
• Experience managing CI/CD pipelines (ideally with GitLab and Kubernetes)
• An ability to make sound technical decisions independently
• Excellent communication skills and clear technical documentation
• A pragmatic mindset: you know when to build it right and when to ship something that works

Responsibilities

• Own our infrastructure platform on AWS for our multi-tenant and single-tenant offerings. We use Terraform, Docker, and k8s to manage it all. Automate all the things
• Maintain and evolve our CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Flux, AWS) to ensure fast, reliable, and repeatable delivery
• Manage our on-prem release process and deployments
• Contribute to client tools like our Terraform provider, CLI, and Kubernetes importer
• Build and maintain infrastructure tooling (e.g., Terraform modules, container images, deployment automation)
• Lead efforts around platform reliability, observability, cost management, incident response, and security hardening
• Work closely with application engineers to build observable and robust services
• Audit current practices, propose improvements, and drive the roadmap for platform and infra maturity
• Dogfood OpsLevel and contribute to our internal maturity program

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with capacity planning and cost structuring with AWS
• Experience with packaging and deploying single-tenant or on-prem software
• Solid software engineering fundamentals and ability to write production-quality code (Ruby or Go is a plus)

Benefits

Market-leading compensation, including equity, based on the skill set and aptitude of the candidate