Staff Platform Engineer

3 weeks, 2 days ago
Full-time
Lead
DevOps and Infrastructure

Switch

Switch is a technology infrastructure ecosystem company focused on the design, construction, and operation of advanced data centers. It provides AI, cloud, and enterprise data center infrastructure, including colocation, edge data centers, telecom, and network services.

Data centers
Founded 2000

Description

  • Own infrastructure topology, scaling boundaries, build/deploy graphs, database ownership boundaries, and cost ceilings.
  • Build validation gates, idempotency checks, drift detectors, and runbooks that safely constrain both humans and AI agents.
  • Diagnose novel platform failures involving consumer lag, DLQs, materialized-view chains, and consent ordering.
  • Own reliability, capacity, and cost planning for a 500K+ events/sec target, including load testing, cluster autoscaling, database sizing, SLOs, and alerting.
  • Own IAM, IRSA, secret rotation, authentication chains, and the permissions exposed through the agent/MCP surface.
  • Keep agent skills, runbooks, and context aligned with real system behavior.
  • Lead incidents and turn each fix into a new runbook plus regression test.

Requirements

  • 5+ years operating production Kubernetes and AWS cloud infrastructure at scale.
  • Strong experience with Terraform and GitOps/Kustomize.
  • Experience with incident response for distributed-systems failures, including databases, streaming, consumer lag, and data integrity.
  • Understanding of how Postgres, a columnar store, and a log/streaming bus behave under load.
  • Comfort working alongside AI agents and building guardrails, runbooks, and checks for safe automation.
  • Bias toward encoding operations as checks, eliminating manual steps, and treating incorrect runbooks as production bugs.
  • Experience with production infrastructure for high-scale systems (preferred).

Benefits

  • $190,000 to $230,000 base salary plus significant equity.
  • No geo-based salaries.
  • Work from home or anywhere.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • High-growth startup with strong opportunity for impact and career growth.
  • Competitive compensation and equity opportunity.

Interested in this position?

Apply directly on the company website

Apply Now

Similar Roles

Platform Engineer

Monzo 1K-5K Banks

Monzo is hiring a Platform Engineer in London or remotely across the UK to build and maintain the cloud infrastructure and platform services that support its growing banking products and engineering teams.

AWS GCP Go Kubernetes Microservices System Design Terraform
19 hours, 53 minutes ago

Web Platform Engineer

Tenna 51-250 Construction & Engineering

Tenna is hiring a Web Platform Engineer to own the technical health, reliability, security, and measurement of its WordPress marketing website within a fast-moving marketing organization.

CDN Cybersecurity DNS Git Google Tag Manager HubSpot JavaScript MySQL PHP REST API SEMrush SEO TLS WordPress
20 hours, 53 minutes ago

Senior Platform Engineer

Leap is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to own the infrastructure and developer tooling that support its home improvement technology platform and help engineering teams ship more reliably and efficiently.

AWS CI/CD Docker DynamoDB EC2 GitHub Actions Kubernetes MongoDB MySQL New Relic PostgreSQL Python Terraform TypeScript
1 day, 21 hours ago

Platform Engineer - Compute

Feedzai 251-1K Diversified Financial Services

Feedzai is hiring a Professional Platform Engineer to help own and evolve the cloud platform that powers its real-time financial crime detection products.

Argo CD AWS CI/CD Docker GCP GitLab GitOps Go Grafana Java Jenkins Kubernetes Microservices Prometheus Terraform
3 days, 20 hours ago

You're on a roll! Sign up now to keep applying.

Sign Up

Already have an account? Log in

Used by 14,729+ remote workers