Senior Platform Engineer
$130,000–$180,000 year
HybridDenver, Colorado, United States
Job Summary
Augment existing infrastructure with integrated observability solutions and implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation. Architect Kubernetes clusters with comprehensive monitoring, build CI/CD pipelines with embedded observability, and establish Service Level Indicators and error budgets. Deploy and manage observability infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure while implementing security, compliance, and governance frameworks for telemetry data. Support incident response procedures, post-mortem processes, and capacity planning to ensure system reliability. Work three days per week in the Denver office with up to 20% travel within the United States.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of Platform Engineering or DevOps experience
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, CDK)
- Strong experience with CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD)
- Hands-on experience with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their observability services
- Experience with container technologies (Docker, Podman) and container registries
- Knowledge of networking, security, load balancing, and distributed systems concepts
- Experience implementing SRE practices including error budgets and toil metrics
- Proficiency in incident management, on-call procedures, and post-mortem culture
- Experience with capacity planning, performance optimization, and scalability design
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages preferred (Go, Python, Java, Node.js, Rust)
- Strong scripting and automation skills (Bash, Python, PowerShell)
- Understanding of software engineering best practices and testing methodologies
- Experience in observability, monitoring, and distributed systems
- Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry ecosystem, including SDKs, APIs, and specifications
- Proficiency with OpenTelemetry Collector configuration, processors, exporters, and receivers
- Strong understanding of telemetry data models, semantic conventions, and instrumentation best practices
- This role will require being in the Denver office three days per week and up to 20% travel within the United States
- Focused is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of the employment Visa process at this time
Desired Qualifications
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages preferred (Go, Python, Java, Node.js, Rust)
- Strong technical writing and documentation skills
- Ability to present complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders
- A passion for knowledge sharing
- Systems thinking and ability to design holistic observability solutions
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills for complex distributed systems
- Curiosity about emerging technologies, particularly AI applications in operations
- Adaptability to rapidly evolving cloud-native and observability technologies
- Collaborative mindset with focus on enabling developer productivity and system reliability
- Understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs) and their application in DevOps
- Knowledge of vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Experience with AI/ML model deployment and monitoring in production environments
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