Senior Staff Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Glassdoor's dynamic Platform Engineering team as a Senior Staff Platform Engineer. This pivotal role involves designing, building, and enhancing the Kubernetes-based platform, improving AWS implementation, and developing a robust disaster recovery plan. You will utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, implement observability solutions, and manage cloud financial operations. Collaboration with various teams and technical leadership are key aspects. Strategic planning for future platform engineering efforts is also a significant responsibility.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in Cloud Native Engineering (DevOps | SRE | Platform Engineering) with a strong focus on AWS, Kubernetes, automation and architecture/design
• Proven track record of building and maintaining large scale, highly available systems
• Extensive expertise in Kubernetes, IaC, and AWS services such as EKS, S3, SQS, RDS/Aurora, EC2, Lambda, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch and VPC
• Demonstrated experience in building CI/CD pipelines using GitLab or GitHub
• Demonstrated experience in building health metric dashboards and alerts in monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and DataDog
• Proven track record in disaster recovery planning within AWS for large-scale enterprises or in high traffic volume organizations
• Strong proficiency in advanced scripting languages like Python or object-oriented programming languages such as Java
• Proficiency in observability tools like DataDog for monitoring and performance analysis
• Experience with Cloud FinOps to manage and optimize cloud costs effectively
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work effectively across teams and with stakeholders at all levels, including customer engineering teams
• Ability to take on product management responsibilities, as needed, to create epics and stories with proper acceptance criteria and requirements
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects and mentor junior engineers
• Strong technical leadership in complex problem solving, diagnostics/troubleshooting and the ability to drive technical decisions
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced, dynamic environment
• Comfortable with both strategic planning and hands-on execution

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and enhance the platform around K8s/EKS, ensuring high availability, scalability, security and performance
• Lead efforts to improve the AWS implementation, focusing on the pillars of the Well-Architected Framework
• Design and provision cloud infrastructure using IaC tools like Terraform and Crossplane
• Develop and implement a comprehensive AWS disaster recovery plan
• Implement and maintain observability solutions using tools like DataDog
• Manage cloud financial operations to optimize cloud spending
• Work closely with customer engineering teams to further the platform and improve overall user experience
• Occasionally put on a PM hat to align platform engineering efforts with business goals and customer engineering needs
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers
• Define and enforce best practices for managing infrastructure
• Participate in strategic planning for future platform engineering efforts

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CDNs such as Fastly, Cloudflare and Amazon Cloudfront
• Experience with Agile and Scrum methodologies
• Experience with utilizing AI Assist tools such as SourceGraph's Cody AI or GitHub's Copilot, within a platform engineering organization
• Familiarity with, or a contributor to, CNCF projects such as DAPR, Crossplane, Argo etc
• Cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional, or FinOps Certified Practitioner

Benefits

• Base salary range: $152,000 - $202,000
• Annual Bonus Target: 15%
• Generous Restricted Stock Units (RSU)
• 100% employer-paid premiums for employee medical, dental, vision, life, short and long-term disability, select well-being programs
• 80% employer-paid premiums for all dependents
• Generous paid time off programs for birthing and non-birthing parents
• Paid injury/illness leave and paid family emergency leave
• After 48 months of continuous employment, 100% of all premiums for you and your dependents can be employer-paid!
• Open Paid Time Off policy, in addition to 15-20 paid company holidays/year
• 401(k) plan with a company match up to $5,000 per year
• Subsidized fertility and family planning services
• Discounted legal assistance services
• Flexible hours and a where-to-work policy
• Remote work