Staff Platform Engineer

Job Summary

A company is looking for a Staff Platform Engineer who will set the technical direction for infrastructure and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for infrastructure, reliability, and observability, driving architectural decisions and platform standards
• Build and mature the platform engineering practice, defining SLOs, incident response protocols, and operational runbooks
• Own the observability stack and design AWS infrastructure for reliability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering
• Proven track record of starting or scaling a platform/SRE function with measurable improvements
• Deep expertise with AWS infrastructure and production services at scale
• Strong proficiency with Datadog for observability and building effective alerting
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation