Staff Platform Engineer

Required

• Demonstrated expertise in architecting, deploying, and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems in cloud production environments, ideally in Platform, SRE, or DevOps roles. Prior ownership of a stateful deployment
• Deep expertise in systems-level coding skills for automation and systems development (Go, Python, or TypeScript).
• Proven experience operating Kubernetes at scale (EKS preferred) and applying IaC patterns (CDK, Terraform).
• Working knowledge of GitOps and reconciliation loops in Kubernetes controllers.
• Solid experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline)
• Operational Excellence
• Expert in defining, designing, and optimizing global monitoring and alerting pipelines (PromQL, metrics correlation, alert noise reduction).
• Experience with large-scale streaming or ad-serving workloads, including HTTP-based delivery (oRTB, VAST), event streaming (Kafka), and AWS network architecture (VPC, load balancers, peering)
• Understanding of cloud security best practices (IAM, encryption, network segmentation, zero trust).
• Proven ability to conduct deep performance analysis, tuning, and optimization across the entire infrastructure stack to achieve optimal cost-per-performance and latency targets.
• A Plus if you have:
• Experience with advanced GitOps patterns using Github Workflows.