Staff Platform Engineer

Engineering · Infrastructure
San Francisco, United States
Staff
Hybrid

Job Overview

We are hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to own core infrastructure services used across the company. You will set technical direction for our Kubernetes-based platform, drive reliability and cost improvements, and mentor senior engineers across teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design and evolve the shared Kubernetes platform used by all product teams
  • Define standards for service deployment, scaling, and observability
  • Partner with security and reliability teams on platform-wide guardrails
  • Mentor senior and staff-track engineers across the infrastructure org

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure
  • Deep expertise with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production
  • Strong proficiency in Go or TypeScript for infrastructure tooling
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code and cloud platforms at scale

Compensation & Benefits

This position has an estimated salary range of $230,000.00 - $285,000.00 per year, plus potential equity and bonus.

Key skills

TypeScript
Kubernetes
Go
Terraform
AWS

Compliance Information

Equal Opportunity: Northwind is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws.

Hiring Disclosure: We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment.

Labor Law Reference: Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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