Senior technical authority at Smarsh managing large - scale distributed data platforms. Leading architectural design, influencing engineering standards, and mentoring engineers across the organization.
About the role
- Senior Platform Engineer helping design, scale, and harden Pivotal’s AI-driven platform. Collaborating closely with engineering teams to improve reliability, security, and scalability.
Responsibilities
- Help shape the architecture of our platform by evaluating trade-offs, improving system design, and partnering with teams to build scalable, reliable infrastructure that supports long-term growth.
- Develop tooling, services, and automation that improve developer productivity, reliability, and observability across the system.
- Expand and harden our Terraform coverage, ensuring critical resources are versioned, auditable, and safely provisioned across environments.
- Contribute to the design of system interactions and data flows, making thoughtful architectural decisions that balance scalability, reliability, and performance as the platform evolves.
- Build and evolve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and testing pipelines that surface meaningful signal rather than noise.
- Partner on securing CI/CD pipelines, access controls, networking, and data flows while supporting compliance efforts as we grow.
- Identify repetitive or high-friction work and eliminate it through automation, better abstractions, or new tooling, including leveraging AI where it meaningfully helps.
- Operate as a partner to feature teams, helping unblock delivery, improve systems, and ensure platform decisions reflect real-world needs.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or software engineering roles
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent practical experience will be considered.
- Strong software engineering foundation with solid coding skills; Python preferred.
- Hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native systems (GCP preferred)
- Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub, GitHub Actions)
- Strong understanding of containers, Docker, and cloud networking fundamentals, as well as orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
- Experience with databases and data infrastructure
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pub/Sub, Kinesis, or similar)
- Comfortable discussing architectural trade-offs and system design decisions clearly and thoughtfully.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, including equity
- Full health, dental, and vision coverage
- Retirement savings plan through 401(k)
- Flexible time off
- Opportunities for company-wide connection and events
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