Staff/Principal Platform Engineer Infrastructure

Who we are looking for We are looking for a Staff/Principal Platform Engineer to join the Infrastructure team . This team owns the foundational platform that every engineering team at P2P.org builds on — Kubernetes, monitoring and observability, secrets management, delivery pipelines, and shared infrastructure tooling. This is not a protocol-specific role. You will work across the entire organization, building and scaling the internal developer platform that enables 60+ blockchain network teams to deploy, monitor, and operate their services reliably and securely. You will be a technical leader who sets direction, drives standards, and mentors engineers—while still being deeply hands‑on. The right person for this role thinks in systems, cares about developer experience, and has strong opinions (loosely held) about how platform infrastructure should be built and consumed at scale. You will Architecture & Platform Engineering Own the architecture and evolution of P2P.org's internal developer platform—Kubernetes, monitoring, secrets management, and delivery infrastructure. You are responsible for how these systems scale, interconnect, and evolve across 60+ blockchain networks. Design and build scalable, fault‑tolerant platform components—capacity planning, multi‑tenancy, networking topology, and storage architecture. Make and document architectural trade‑offs clearly. Write production code in Go and/or Python—platform tooling, services, operators, and APIs. This is a hands‑on engineering role, not just configuration. Build self‑service infrastructure that teams consume with minimal friction—Terraform modules, Helm charts, reusable pipeline templates, and platform APIs. Champion our versioned module library and automated security propagation via Renovate. Scale our Kubernetes platform across bare‑metal and cloud, and evolve the observability stack (Victoria Metrics, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) and delivery platform (ArgoCD, CI/CD pipelines). Security & Compliance Own the security posture of the platform—secrets management, access controls, identity federation, network policies, and encryption at rest and in transit. Maintain SOC 2 Type II compliance across platform infrastructure—implement controls as code, maintain audit readiness, and work with compliance teams to close gaps proactively. Enforce container and supply chain security—image scanning, signed artifacts, base image management, and vulnerability remediation. Apply zero‑trust principles: least‑privilege roles, short‑lived credentials, auditable access. Harden Kubernetes workloads through pod security standards, network policies, RBAC, and runtime monitoring. AI & Engineering Productivity Use AI tooling as a core part of how you work and champion its adoption across the infrastructure team and wider engineering organization—in code generation, code review, incident response, documentation, and operational automation. Build or integrate AI‑assisted tooling into platform workflows where it delivers genuine improvement. Help define how we measure the impact of AI adoption across engineering. Leadership & Collaboration Lead the technical direction for the infrastructure team—set architectural standards, drive best practices, and reduce technical debt. Collaborate cross‑functionally with SRE, blockchain, engineering, data, and security teams. Translate their needs into platform capabilities. Mentor and grow engineers through code reviews, architectural guidance, design reviews, and knowledge sharing. Contribute to incident response and post‑incident reviews, driving platform reliability improvements. You have 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering, with at least 3 years in a senior or staff-level role owning system architecture and technical direction. Strong software engineering skills in Go and/or Python—write production-quality code, not just scripts. Design, build, test, and ship platform services and tooling. Proven ability to architect large‑scale distributed systems—capacity planning, fault‑tolerance patterns, system decomposition, and the ability to articulate trade‑offs clearly. Deep Kubernetes expertise—managed (GKE, EKS) and bare‑metal/hybrid clusters, including networking, storage, multi‑tenancy, and cluster lifecycle management. Strong Terraform experience—reusable module libraries, state management at scale, and infrastructure lifecycle automation. Experience with at least one major cloud provider (GCP, OCI, AWS, or Azure) plus bare‑metal infrastructure. Hands‑on experience with observability (Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent) and delivery tooling (ArgoCD, Helm, CI/CD pipelines). Strong Linux systems and networking fundamentals (DNS, load balancing, firewalls, VPN, BGP). Infrastructure security experience—container security, supply chain security, network policies, zero‑trust access patterns, and compliance (SOC 2 Type II or similar). Active use of AI tooling in your engineering workflow, with experience driving adoption across a team. Track record of building self‑service platform capabilities that other teams actually adopt. Strong written and verbal communication—technical proposals, architectural decisions, cross‑team collaboration. English B2 minimum. Benefits Fully remote Full‑time contractor (indefinite‑term consultancy agreement) Competitive salary; can pay in crypto Paid vacation and sick leave Well‑being program Mental health care program Compensation for education, including foreign language & professional growth courses Equipment & co‑working reimbursement program Overseas conferences, community immersion P2P.org is committed to providing equal opportunities. All applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or disability. #J-18808-Ljbffr