Senior Platform Engineer helping design, scale, and harden Pivotal’s AI - driven platform. Collaborating closely with engineering teams to improve reliability, security, and scalability.
About the role
- Senior technical authority at Smarsh managing large-scale distributed data platforms. Leading architectural design, influencing engineering standards, and mentoring engineers across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the architectural vision and operating standards for large-scale distributed data platforms.
- Lead the design and evolution of highly available, scalable clusters supporting core data technologies including MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and Apache Kafka.
- Solve complex, ambiguous distributed systems problems, balancing trade-offs across scalability, resilience, performance, security, and cost.
- Influence engineering teams to adopt platform standards, automation practices, and self-service capabilities.
- Partner with engineering and product leadership to align platform capabilities with strategic business objectives.
- Establish reliability targets, operational models, and observability standards for stateful workloads on multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
- Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and raise the technical bar across the platform organization.
- Contribute as a senior escalation point within the on-call rotation.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in platform engineering, SRE, or distributed systems-focused roles.
- Demonstrated subject matter expertise in operating at least one of MongoDB, Kafka, or ElasticSearch at high scale, including deep day-2 operational knowledge.
- Significant experience designing and operating large-scale, Kubernetes environments and associated ecosystem tooling (e.g. Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD etc.). Experience managing stateful workloads on Kubernetes is a significant plus.
- Proven experience defining architectural standards and influencing technical direction across teams.
- Strong programming skills (Python, Java, or similar), with experience building internal platform APIs and automation tooling a significant plus.
- Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform) and cloud-native deployment models.
- Hands-on experience operating enterprise-scale workloads in AWS.
- Experience designing and evolving observability platforms (e.g. Prometheus/Grafana, ELK) to support multi-cluster environments.
- Strong understanding of security principles and experience embedding security best practices into production environments and code promotion systems.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence diverse technical and non-technical stakeholders
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