Staff Multi-Cloud Platform Engineer

Locations Compa headquarters are located in Irvine, California, with growing sites in Denver, Colorado and San Francisco, California. The role As a Staff Engineer on the Platform team, you'll own and lead platform engineering across our cloud, data, and AI/ML systems. Multi-cloud is central to what we're building, not a future initiative! You'll work closely with teammates and engineering leadership to set direction, and build the foundation that lets every team at Compa move fast, strategically. This is a high-ownership individual contributor role where your decisions shape how the enterprise builds and ships. What you'll do Design, build, and maintain core infrastructure across cloud, data, and AI/ML systems Own and evolve Compa's Kubernetes-based platforms across AWS, GCP, and Azure Drive multi-cloud initiatives including cloud abstraction patterns, cross-cloud identity, networking, data movement, traffic routing, and customer-managed encryption keys Define platform standards for Kubernetes cluster architecture, workload isolation, tenancy, networking, security, scaling, upgrades, and operational ownership Scale and automate infrastructure services and internal tooling Raise the bar on reliability and observability through SLIs/SLOs, monitoring, and incident response Design and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, infrastructure automation and paved paths for engineering teams Lead platform efforts that reduce developer toil and improve velocity Partner with leadership on technical direction and roadmap Act as a multiplier, setting standards that help engineers around you level-up What we're looking for 8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong emphasis on infrastructure and platform development Deep, hands-on experience with managed Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, or AKS) – cluster architecture, networking, scaling, upgrades and production operations Strong Python skills applied to infrastructure tooling and backend systems Hands‑on experience designing and operating production systems across at least two of AWS, GCP, and Azure; this is a must-have Experience managing infrastructure across cloud boundaries: identity, networking, data, traffic routing, and failover Observability tooling experience such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki or ELK, Jaeger, or Tempo Comfortable with high ownership and ambiguity – you've built things without a playbook before Nice to have DevOps and SRE practices: infrastructure as code, CI/CD, incident response Security fundamentals: IAM, secrets management, encryption, least privilege Exposure to MLOps Early‑stage startup experience #J-18808-Ljbffr Compa