Staff Platform Engineer
San Francisco · USD 180,000-220,000 / year · 5+ years experience · Remote · Posted Sep 24, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- San Francisco
- Salary
- USD 180,000-220,000 / year
About the role
- As a Platform Engineer, you will design, build, and operate scalable, secure infrastructure while driving monitoring, alerting, CI/CD pipelines, and developer experience tooling.
- You will accelerate development and automation of complex, mission-critical industrial manufacturing applications.
- Working closely with the Platform Engineering team, R&D, and Operations, you will play a key role in shaping and maintaining the core platform that powers automation solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure to support applications and automation systems.
- Own and continuously improve platform engineering tools and services, including documentation and cross-team communication.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment pipelines.
- Manage CI/CD systems to enable efficient and reliable delivery of software.
- Implement and operate observability solutions (logging, monitoring, alerting) to ensure uptime and system performance.
- Enforce security best practices, including vulnerability management and incident response readiness.
- Participate in the on-call rotation for services owned by the Platform Engineering team.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
- At least 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
- Strong experience with physical infrastructure, including networking equipment and servers.
- Proficiency with CI/CD tools and GitOps workflows.
- Hands-on coding experience in Python and Shell scripting.
- Solid understanding of Linux internals and system administration.
- Experience with public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible).
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes (self-hosted and managed), including Helm.
- Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
Skills
- AWS
- Azure
- Terraform
- ArgoCD
- Kubernetes
- GitLab
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- OpenTelemetry
- Python
- Ansible
- Helm
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