Senior Platform Engineer

Role Description

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to build the paved road for product teams and drive adoption at scale. You'll design and operate the developer platform that powers our services, with a particular focus on building AI-native platform tooling:

• From agentic service catalogs and MCP-backed APIs to golden paths for AI agent deployment.
• We use Backstage for service provisioning and templating, but our platform investment is moving toward AI-first tooling that serves both engineers and agentic systems as first-class users.

You Will:

• Maintain and extend service provisioning foundations:
• Keep Backstage-based service templating healthy for greenfield use cases.
• Contribute to our growing service catalog layer: a YAML-backed, AI-enriched registry exposed via REST API and MCP, designed to be queryable by both engineers and agentic systems.
• Build and scale agent golden paths:
• Evolve our agentic infrastructure from experiments to standard architecture.
• Treat AI agents as first-class platform users: defining deployment standards, and building the guardrails that let teams ship agents safely and consistently.
• Drive service mesh adoption:
• Lead the rollout and standardization of Istio across the fleet: covering mTLS, traffic shaping, and policy enforcement.
• Build the golden paths and runbooks that make mesh adoption straightforward for product teams.
• Establish platform guardrails:
• Define scorecards/insights and CI policies (lint, contract checks, security baselines) that raise signals and make it easy for teams to get to “green.”
• Own core platform components:
• Design, build, and operate Kubernetes, IaC (e.g., Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, service templates, runtime addons, and shared libraries with SLOs and clear runbooks.
• Work closely with product teams:
• Partner with a rotating set of squads to co‑design golden paths, collect feedback, remove friction, and measure adoption and impact.
• Lead migrations and deprecations:
• Plan and execute multi‑repo changes (API versioning, SDK upgrades, framework/runtime bumps) with clear comms, docs, and safe rollout strategies.
• Measure what matters:
• Instrument developer experience and delivery metrics; use data to prioritize and iterate the platform roadmap.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a DevOps, SRE, Software, or Platform Engineer building and operating services and the tooling around them.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent years of experience.
• Production experience with Backstage (or a similar developer portal), service catalogs, and software templates.
• Depth in cloud + containers (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes, Istio), infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform or similar), and CI/CD.
• Proficient coding skills in at least one of TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, Java, or Python and familiarity with multi‑repo change management.
• A product mindset with empathy for developers; you seek feedback, simplify workflows, and bias toward adoption.
• Experience enabling AI-assisted software delivery at scale, building agent-ready platform workflows, policy-as-code guardrails, and automated review/remediation pipelines for AI-generated code (especially infrastructure as code).

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven track record making platforms that developers choose to use self‑service workflows, templates, and documentation that accelerate delivery.
• Experience leading large-scale dependency and framework upgrades across many repos/services (e.g., automated PRs, codemods, or templated migrations), with safe rollout and measurable adoption.
• Hands‑on with observability (Datadog Preferred but Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry will all work).
• Security-first mindset and experience with secrets management, IAM/least privilege, container scanning, etc.
• Comfortable with RFCs, technical writing, and leading cross‑org programs.

Benefits

• Competitive salary & equity compensation for full-time roles.
• Unlimited PTO, company holidays, and quarterly mental health days.
• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental & vision, and parental leave.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
• 401k benefits with employer matching contribution.
• Offsite team retreats.