Platform Engineer
As a Platform Engineer at Cube, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the core platform that powers Cube cloud product and supports Cube Core at scale. Your primary focus will be reliability, scalability, performance, and developer productivity across our infrastructure and internal platforms.
You will work closely with Core and Platform engineers to ensure Cube runs efficiently in production environments and provides a seamless experience for our internal teams.
What you will do:- Designing and maintaining cloud-native infrastructure for a globally distributed analytics platform.
- Building internal platform tooling to improve developer velocity, observability, and deployment safety.
- Scaling multi-tenant systems that serve large volumes of analytical queries with strict latency requirements.
- Improving reliability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery for Cube cloud platform.
- Operating Kubernetes-based environments and evolving our deployment and release pipelines.
- Implementing monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices for a high-availability system.
Who you are:- Strong experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar).
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent).
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, networking, and Linux internals.
- Experience building and operating production systems with high availability and performance requirements.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language used for platform development (Go, Rust, TypeScript, Python, or similar).
- Familiarity with CI/CD systems and release automation.
- Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, etc.).
- Good communication skills and ability to work effectively in a remote, async environment.
- Fluent English.
Bonus points:- Background in security best practices for cloud platforms.
- Experience operating data-intensive or analytics-heavy platforms.
- Hands-on use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar) in your day-to-day engineering workflow.
- Contributions to open-source infrastructure or platform projects.
We're a fully remote company based in San Francisco. You can work from anywhere and join our highly collaborative team.
