Staff Platform Engineer (IC-4)
$97,000–$170,000 year
RemoteColombia or Brazil
Job Summary
Own and operate core platform systems across AWS, GCP, Vercel, and Cloudflare while leading incident response as the primary on-call expert during US business hours. Improve reliability, scalability, and security of production environments by enhancing observability with Datadog and refining CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions to reduce deployment risk. Evolve local development environments and operational tooling to reduce friction for engineers, partnering with product teams to address platform pain points. This hands-on individual contributor role focuses on infrastructure health and developer experience without people management responsibilities.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in platform, DevOps, or SRE-focused roles
- Strong experience operating production systems on AWS (certifications strongly preferred), Vercel, and/or GCP
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar)
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, security fundamentals, and IAM
- Experience with observability tooling (Datadog preferred)
- Ability to troubleshoot production issues calmly and systematically
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English (C1 or higher)
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Cloudflare (DNS, WAF, edge configuration)
- Experience with Agentic and LLM based tooling and automations (Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, etc)
- Experience improving local development tooling (ie Docker, Husky, bash)
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar)
- Experience supporting regulated or compliance-sensitive environment
- Experience working with PII, PHI, and sensitive data systems in general
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