Role: Platform Engineer
Location: SF Bay Area
Salary: $175,000 - $230,000
Industry: Technology
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Our client is a well-funded, early-stage infrastructure startup building developer tooling focused on simplifying data-intensive application architecture. Their open-source platform has seen rapid adoption across engineering organizations ranging from high-growth startups to enterprise environments in fintech, cloud infrastructure, and other technically complex industries.
Following several years of product development, the company has established strong product-market fit, a growing base of enterprise customers, and increasing demand for production deployments. They're now scaling the platform team responsible for customer infrastructure and deployment operations.
THE ROLE
As a Platform Engineer, you'll own the infrastructure that delivers the product to enterprise customers. The core of this work is a Bring-Your-Own-Cloud (BYOC) platform: a Kubernetes-based deployment system that runs inside customers' cloud environments. You'll build and operate it, work directly with customers from initial deployment through production support, and help define what the platform team looks like from the ground up.
This is not a role where you follow someone else's playbook. You'll make meaningful architectural decisions on infrastructure that supports enterprise customers at scale.
WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON
Build and maintain the BYOC platform using Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and cloud APIs
Own database operations within the platform including backups, replication, high availability, and recovery
Develop deployment, monitoring, and testing infrastructure around the core platform
Work directly with enterprise customers through rollout and ongoing production support
Build CI/CD pipelines for continuous benchmarking, testing, and releases
Contribute to technical documentation, product demos, and platform tooling
Help shape infrastructure and platform roadmap decisions
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
Strong proficiency in Go
Deep production-level Kubernetes experience
Experience working on managed infrastructure, cloud platform, or database products
Strong distributed systems background including microservices, APIs, and gRPC
Knowledge of relational database operations including replication, WAL, backups, and HA setups
Experience with Terraform, Helm, Bash/Python, and CI/CD tooling
Prior experience deploying infrastructure directly into customer cloud environments
Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical decision-making clearly
WHY THIS ROLE
Join a company with strong product-market fit and growing enterprise demand
Flat structure with direct exposure to founders and technical leadership
Opportunity to solve complex infrastructure and distributed systems challenges
Work on an open-source product with an active and growing developer community
BENEFITS
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Competitive equity package
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- Dice Id: 91115974
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- Posted 3 hours ago
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