SRE - Platform Engineer

Remote (United States)

Job Details

Location: United States

Workplace: Remote

Experience: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or 8+ years of software engineering experience

Core Areas: Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), GCP, Kubernetes/GKE, Terraform, Observability, CI/CD, Infrastructure Automation

Compensation: $125,000–$150,000 per year

About the Role

This opportunity is for an SRE - Platform Engineer focused on the reliability, scalability, and performance of internal and client-facing IT infrastructure and the internal developer platform. The role combines platform engineering with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), including cloud architecture, GKE cluster operations, infrastructure automation, observability, incident response, SLO/SLI management, capacity planning, and performance optimization.

The position works extensively with GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Linux, GitHub Actions, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and Honeycomb. The engineering approach emphasizes self-service, security by default, least privilege, Test Driven Development (TDD), resilient systems, and scalable software delivery while providing technical direction and platform capabilities to software engineering teams.

What You'll Do

• Serve as a broad-domain architect for the internal developer platform and cloud engineering environment.
• Drive architecture decisions for engineering tooling and internally developed software.
• Mentor platform engineers and promote strong engineering practices across the team.
• Enable platform engineering capabilities for internal software engineering teams.
• Work as a peer with senior architects and engineers across software engineering.
• Design and engineer solutions within the GCP environment.
• Architect and oversee Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster operations and workload management.
• Provide technical feedback and participate in peer reviews and pair programming.
• Drive adoption of Test Driven Development by designing, developing, and debugging unit and integration tests for new and existing infrastructure and code.
• Continuously evaluate existing implementations and emerging technologies and share relevant knowledge with the engineering team.
• Apply continuous improvement practices across technical responsibilities and professional development.
• Communicate clearly with platform engineering teams and other stakeholders while providing technical direction.
• Stay current with platform changes and third-party libraries and proactively evaluate improved solutions for existing implementations.
• Apply OpenTelemetry and true observability principles, including an understanding of how observability differs from monitoring and logging.
• Help strengthen engineering practices and support the development of a high-performing engineering culture.
• Apply self-service, least privilege, and security-by-default principles across platform solutions.
• Define and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets.
• Lead incident response activities, including on-call rotations, root cause analysis, and post-mortem reviews.
• Implement and optimize monitoring, alerting, and observability systems to improve system reliability.
• Collaborate on capacity planning and performance optimization to support high availability.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or 8+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Advanced experience creating and managing public cloud resources with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
• Experience participating independently in a 24/7 on-call schedule and successfully resolving issues without escalation.
• Proven experience with Site Reliability Engineering practices, including incident management and reliability engineering.
• Experience containerizing applications with Docker and orchestrating workloads with Kubernetes.
• Experience using Git in trunk-based development models.
• Experience using feature flagging for infrastructure and Kubernetes runtime environments.
• Experience using OpenTelemetry for observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog, New Relic, or similar technologies.
• Experience working with security compliance frameworks including FedRAMP, NIST, and SOC 2.

Required Skills

• Strong proficiency with Kubernetes; CKA or CKAD certification is optional.
• Extensive Unix/Linux knowledge and experience working predominantly through command-line interfaces.
• Polyglot development capability with proficiency in multiple languages, ideally including Golang, Node.js, Python, and HCL.
• Knowledge of multi-cloud environments, including familiarity with at least two of GCP, AWS, and Azure.
• Advanced ability to provision and manage public cloud infrastructure through Terraform or comparable Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Strong understanding of networking and routing principles.
• Familiarity with security configuration for web and API services, including SSL and access control.
• Ability to use JIRA or similar work-tracking systems, resolve tickets according to priority, and collaborate with a Technical Product Manager to adjust priorities.
• Strong technical documentation skills using Confluence or similar tools, including support notes, runbooks, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
• Familiarity with creating end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using multiple tools and artifact storage.
• Familiarity with macOS as a desktop environment and predominantly CLI-based workflows.
• Ability to apply a product mindset by understanding stakeholder needs, priorities, and business value.
• Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb, or similar monitoring and observability technologies.
• Experience with chaos engineering, load testing, or reliability testing frameworks.

Additional Experience

• Experience with backend database technologies, including database support and performance improvements, is a plus.

Tooling Environment

• GitHub and GitHub Actions.
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Kubernetes through GKE, Helm, and Docker.
• Google Secret Manager (GSM).
• Terraform.
• Honeycomb.
• Grafana stack.
• Prometheus.

Security Responsibilities

• Maintain a high level of security for personal or private information accessed as part of the role, whether working remotely or at a facility.
• Participate in required security training, respect individual privacy rights, and comply with applicable security policies.
• Comply with additional regulatory or contractual requirements when accessing protected sensitive data, including information governed by HIPAA or contractual requirements related to credit card data.