Staff Platform Engineer

Staff Platform Engineer

Requirements

• B.S. in Computer Science, or related quantitative field, or equivalent technical experience
• 5+ years of experience in a Cloud Infrastructure, DevSecOps, or systems-focused platform software engineering role
• Deep experience architecting and operating cloud solutions on AWS
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CDK
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience building tools in Python, Ruby, Bash, or other technologies typically used for system orchestration
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools
• Excited to design, implement, and evangelize computing standards and culture across scientific and technical functions
• Enjoys building scalable, secure, and robust systems
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Implement platform technologies to create, deploy, and monitor scientific applications for internal and external use
• Facilitate cloud technology adoption cross-functionally across scientific and research teams
• Understand user needs across a wide range of scientific disciplines and build systems that scientists can use productively
• Optimize system performance and utilization for scientific applications and underlying infrastructure
• Work with stakeholders to improve financial operations in the cloud, driving changes for efficient allocation of resources and cost management
• Administer cached and distributed high performance file systems
• Improve reliability of systems via automation, testing, and continuous integration and delivery
• Continuously improve and maintain documentation for our development and deployment processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building platforms to accelerate the efforts of software, data, and machine learning engineers
• Experience writing automated tests across different levels of the test pyramid