Staff Platform Engineer
$205,000–$235,000 year
Remote · United States or US
Job Summary
Staff Platform Engineer at Topstep responsible for defining and maturing infrastructure, reliability, and observability across the engineering organization. Own the AWS infrastructure (EKS, Aurora/RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, CloudFront), observability stack (Datadog, CloudWatch), and platform tooling; drive platform standards, SLOs, incident response, on-call practices, and runbooks. Lead infrastructure-as-code strategy with Terraform across multi-account AWS environments, shape release engineering and CI/CD practices, and mentor engineers on production ownership. Partner with product teams to embed reliability early in design, influence architectural decisions, and build a mature platform engineering function with blameless post-mortems and continuous improvement.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of professional experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering
- Proven track record starting a platform/SRE function from scratch or scaling with measurable improvements to MTTR/MTTD/change failure rate/availability
- Deep expertise with AWS infrastructure (EKS, EC2, RDS/Aurora, VPC, ALB/NLB, CloudFront, SQS)
- Strong proficiency with Datadog for end-to-end observability
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CodePipeline)
- Scripting and automation (Bash, Python)
- Strong proficiency with Kubernetes in production
- Terraform for multi-account, multi-environment infrastructure management
- Track record of influencing engineering culture through documentation, tooling, mentorship, and leadership
- Excellent communication skills to articulate system behavior and trade-offs to varied audiences
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