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Lead Platform Engineer

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Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Fri, Nov 13, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

Owning and evolving significant components of the internal platform-as-a-service, the full-time remote Lead Platform Engineer will manage complex infrastructure initiatives, enhance developer workflows, and drive operational improvements while mentoring junior engineers.

Key responsibilities
  • Lead execution on complex infrastructure initiatives with minimal oversight, collaborating with platform and application engineers
  • Build and maintain tooling that improves deployment reliability and developer productivity
  • Apply best practices around Infrastructure-as-Code, containerized workloads, and CI/CD pipelines
Required qualifications
  • 5+ years of software development and infrastructure experience with significant contributions
  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering or computer science field
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes orchestration and AWS
  • Ability to independently scope and execute complex technical problems with minimal direction
  • Strong developer empathy and passion for improving the developer experience

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