Senior Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Spoiler Alert, a high-growth B2B SaaS company focused on reducing food waste, as a Senior Platform Engineer. Reporting to the CTO, you will own roadmap themes, deliver projects, and mentor other engineers. You will influence technical decisions, considering customer needs, business context, and platform costs. This role requires expertise in building and maintaining cloud infrastructure, championing DevEx, and ensuring platform reliability and security. The ideal candidate will have experience with GCP, CI/CD, managed databases, and data stack technologies. Spoiler Alert offers a remote-first work environment and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Expert at building and maintaining infrastructure with a cloud provider like GCP: Provision, configure, deploy, and maintain managed compute services like GKE and CloudRun preferably with IaC like Terraform
• Maintain CI/CD with a managed service like CircleCI
• Monitor and maintain managed DBs like MongoDB Atlas
• Deploy and maintain data stack with managed services for data orchestration, syncing, and warehousing with tools like Astronomer/Airflow, Fivetran, and BigQuery
• Keep infrastructure costs within annual budget targets, highlighting unexpected variations with plans for mitigation
• Provide environments for production and development for Node and python using tools like Docker
• Own platform SLAs and SLOs, supported by usable logging and monitoring for all services
• Manage platform DNS records in a service like GoDaddy
• Champion for security and appropriate access control across the platform
• Maintain health of code repos including triage and mitigation of identified vulnerabilities
• Manage IAM policies, managed preferably with IaC like Terraform
• Ensure appropriate access control for platform services preferably with automation like SSO and SCIM
• Instrument managed intrusion detection systems like Cloud IDS

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute cloud infrastructure roadmap to securely, cost effectively uphold platform reliability and data availability
• Champion DevEx with DevOps that champion observability, documentation, and automation collaboratively with all of Engineering
• Join the infrastructure on-call rotation, providing infrastructure improvements and ongoing training for Engineering to do their own troubleshooting while on support rotation
• Partner with Data and Product engineers to deliver and maintain our product roadmap

Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock option packages
• Subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance plans
• Climate-focused, pre-tax 401(k) and post-tax Roth 401(k) options
• 12-16 weeks of paid parental leave + flex return to work
• 15+ company holidays, including an EOY rest week
• 20 vacation days and 10 sick days per year
• Summer Fridays - 1/2 day Fridays MDW - LDW
• Paid volunteer outings and civic engagement leave
• Annual $2000 flex spending budget - learning and development, home office, social outings, etc
• $500 FSA employer contribution