Senior/Lead SRE Platform Services Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Title: Senior/Lead SRE Platform Services Engineer Technical Leader
Location: Remote (San Jose, CA)
Duration: Full-time

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
" Experience in SRE, platform engineering, infrastructure, distributed systems, or cloud operations.
" Demonstrated technical leadership across multi-team infrastructure or platform programs.
" Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, Ruby, or similar languages, plus experience with infrastructure-as-code and production automation.
" Deep experience operating large-scale cloud or hybrid-cloud systems with strong reliability, security, and observability requirements.
" Strong understanding of CI/CD, deployment orchestration, Kubernetes, AWS, and production incident response.
" Ability to translate compliance and security requirements into practical engineering systems and operating models.
" Excellent written communication, architecture review, mentoring, and cross-functional leadership skills.

Roles & Responsibilities:
" Set the technical strategy for Platform Services work supporting FedRAMP High and IL5.
" Own key architectural decisions for centralized platform APIs, CI components, continuous delivery workflows, automated service onboarding, and federal promotion gates.
" Lead the move from manual federal promotion processes toward reliable, automated, gated delivery workflows.
" Define patterns for service onboarding, deployment validation, operational readiness, audit-friendly change control, and rollback safety.
" Partner with other teams to align dependencies, remove blockers, and drive clear technical decisions across the federal build-out.
" Lead design reviews for services moving into federal environments, with attention to isolation, observability, security controls, and operational ownership.
" Mentor senior and mid-level engineers; raise the quality of designs, code reviews, runbooks, and incident analysis.
" Represent Platform Services in program planning, execution commit work, risk reviews, and senior engineering discussions.
" Communicate difficult technical concepts clearly to stakeholders and help the team reach durable decisions.
Nice to have skills:
" Experience building or operating FedRAMP High, DoD IL5, GovCloud, FIPS, or other regulated environments.
" Experience with platform APIs, progressive delivery, CI components, continuous delivery, artifact promotion, or deployment control planes.
" Experience leading automation of previously manual operational workflows.