Staff Platform Engineer

What You Will Do: Own operational strategy and technical direction for GitLab and Artifactory platforms Lead cloud-native transformations, Kubernetes migrations, and GitOps adoption Drive architecture for multi-region high-availability deployments and active-active patterns Design self-healing systems with automated remediation and chaos engineering practices Establish cloud-native best practices, including 12-factor apps, containerization, and observability Mentor team members on automation patterns and cloud-native architectures Influence organizational standards for platform engineering and developer experience Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-assisted operations, eBPF, and service mesh Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs with a continuous improvement focus Required: BS in computer science or equivalent experience 7+ years operating and architecting enterprise-scale platforms 5+ years of self-managed GitLab experience, including Geo, high availability, and disaster recovery 5+ years of Artifactory experience, including Hub/Edge, federation, and enterprise deployments 3+ years of deep Kubernetes experience, including operators, CRDs, service mesh, and multi-cluster environments 7+ years of expert Linux experience, including kernel, networking, and performance tuning PostgreSQL high availability experience, such as Patroni, and advanced networking knowledge, including BGP, anycast, and zero-trust architectures Additional Requirements: Cloud-Native Expertise Deep knowledge of cloud computing, infrastructure, and architecture patterns Experience with major cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and GCP, and their managed services Experience with cloud-native tooling, including Kubernetes operators, Helm, ArgoCD, and Flux Experience with service mesh technologies, including Istio, and infrastructure-as-code tools, including Terraform Experience with cloud-native observability, including Prometheus, and distributed tracing Experience with cloud-native security, including OPA, Trivy, and SBOM practices Production-grade automation experience with Python, Go, and Bash CI/CD platform design experience at scale Experience with FedRAMP IL4/IL5 Proven mentorship and team development experience Strong communication and cross-team influence skills Growth mindset, humility, and commitment to continuous development Preferred Open-source contributions to Kubernetes, GitLab, or Artifactory projects Experience with eBPF observability/security, WebAssembly, or MLOps Published technical writing or conference talks Developer platform or platform-as-a-service experience SRE practices and chaos engineering experience #J-18808-Ljbffr