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Senior Staff Platform Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Wed, Oct 07, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

To set the technical direction for the platform, the full-time Senior Staff Platform Engineer will own critical architecture initiatives, lead cross-organizational programs, and mentor engineering teams while working remotely.

Key responsibilities
  • Own group-critical platform initiatives, ensuring alignment with long-term organizational strategy
  • Define architectural patterns and platform primitives for consistent implementation across teams
  • Drive execution across organizational boundaries, resolving systemic blockers and coordinating rollouts
Required qualifications
  • 12+ years in Platform, Infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles, with ownership of multi-team initiatives
  • Expertise in Kubernetes/EKS, service mesh (preferably Istio), and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or similar)
  • Proven experience leading complex technical programs from architecture through execution
  • Ability to debug production incidents in distributed systems and proficiency in at least one programming language (Go, Python, TypeScript, or Java)
  • Demonstrated ability to influence across engineering organizations and mentor Staff-level engineers

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