Summary
What you’ll impact
The Senior Staff/Platform Engineer will serve as the technical lead for the edge appliance, overseeing the full stack from OS hardening to container orchestration and observability. They will guide platform and DevOps initiatives, deliver AWS-based features via IaC, and mentor the engineering team, reporting to the VP of Engineering.
Responsibilities
What you'll do
- Become the go-to expert and technical lead for the edge appliance: the Linux operating system, OS hardening and patching, the container runtime, and the orchestration layer, as a single, coherent, production-grade stack deployed across customer environments
- Serve as technical leader of Platform/DevOps initiatives, including systems architecture, design, and technical scoping/implementation of platform features
- Build and own the observability story for the edge: metrics, logging, and tracing that give the team confidence in appliances running on infrastructure they don't physically control
- Raise the testing bar for edge software, from test coverage through the fleet-level validation needed to ship changes to customer sites safely
- Contribute to the remaining mission-critical Platform systems alongside the appliance: DevEx/CI-CD, network architecture, and database maintenance
- Help evolve software development and delivery practices, adopting AI-native techniques that empower the team to move with speed and integrity
- Reliably deliver platform features on AWS using Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and modern service delivery practices
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation and own root cause analysis and process improvement for the systems they lead
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers, fostering a culture of communication, openness, and continuous improvement
Requirements
What you’ll bring
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with strong coding skills in production environments
- 5+ years of platform engineering, infrastructure, or distributed systems experience in a senior role
- Expertise with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
- Proficiency in at least one language in the stack: Kotlin, Rust, TypeScript, or Python
- Experience building and operating edge or IoT systems in production environments
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, or equivalent)
- Strong debugging skills across distributed systems and microservices architectures
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience