Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering/SRE

Summary

Join a tight-knit team at Mux as a Senior Software Engineer for the Platform Engineering Team to contribute to the design and operation of infrastructure that powers high traffic distributed platforms.

Requirements

• Expertise in building and scaling business-critical Kubernetes infrastructure through all phases of the cluster lifecycle
• Software engineering skills for developing tools and automation solutions with Go
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD systems using technologies like Bazel, Terraform, and Argo CD/Workflows/Rollouts
• Deep knowledge of engineering fundamentals such as TCP/UDP, HTTP, TLS, DNS, and Linux system administration
• Ability to evolve infrastructure platforms through shared service abstractions and automation, creating a seamless user experience for our development teams
• Healthy, respectful relationships to support all of our partner teams such as Product, Analytics and Developer Experience
• Proficiency in implementing and utilizing infrastructure observability and monitoring tools (Grafana Cloud, prometheus, OpenTelemetry, eBPF)

Responsibilities

• Participate in the design and deployment of major shared container orchestration infrastructure components
• Improve the usability of our platform services and CI/CD systems through tooling and automation
• Lead cross-functional projects with other engineering teams and contribute to strategic roadmap initiatives
• Debug production issues across applications and services at all layers of the infrastructure stack
• Evolving our engineering standards and processes
• Champion best practices for availability, reliability, capacity planning, incident management, and production readiness

Benefits

• Flexible PTO + 11 company holidays
• Weekly no-meeting days + quarterly focus weeks
• Healthy work-life balance encouraged
• Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance (100% employee and 65% dependent premium coverage)
• Fully funded fertility benefits
• HSA available, compatible with high deductible plan only ($100 per single employee/month & $200 per family/month employer contribution)
• FSA available
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Group life insurance
• Travel accident insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Medical support concierge service
• 401(k)
• Paid parental leave
• Investment in career growth through professional development stipend
• Reimbursements for headphones, cell phones, device upgrades, and SVoD services of Mux customers
• Lunch reimbursement program