Senior Platform Engineer

Translucent

$200K — $250K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of post-university industry experience
  • Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Strong Kubernetes skills, especially with GKE
  • Proficiency in Python, Golang, and Typescript
  • Strong experience with relational databases, including MongoDB
  • Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, preferably OpenTofu
  • Solid understanding of computational fundamentals, logic, and algorithms.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain well-tested applications in Python, Typescript, and Golang.
  • Manage and optimize Kubernetes deployments using a GitOps approach with tools like GitHub, ArgoCD, and Kargo.
  • Handle Infrastructure as Code (IaC) on GCP.
  • Deploy and optimize applications utilizing MongoDB Atlas, PostgreSQL, and Spanner.
  • Document processes and enhance LLM-assisted coding workflows, driving code review improvements.
  • Collaborate with product engineers to accelerate feature development.
  • Ensure software correctness and security.

Benefits

  • High-ownership role with significant autonomy
  • Collaborative environment working with product engineers
  • Opportunities to work with cutting-edge technologies in data and AI
  • Potential exposure to regulated domains like finance or health tech
  • In-office collaboration in downtown New York City four days a week.
Full Job Description
About the role

We're hiring a Senior Platform Engineer focussed on supporting and enabling data and AI engineering in New York. You will build and maintain the foundational platform technology that enables our data and agentic AI systems and that form our product. You will build and help maintain infrastructure primarily in GCP and you will partner closely with other platform engineers and product engineers in keeping our core systems fast, correct, secure and well-tested.

This is a high-ownership role. You will work directly with a large group of product engineers in enabling our product teams to move fast.
What you'll do
  • Build and maintain well-tested applications in Python, Typescript and golang.
  • Build and maintain kubernetes (GKE) deployments and workloads with our preferred gitops approach. We use github, ArgoCD and Kargo.
  • Manage IaC on GCP.
  • Build, help deploy and optimize applications using MongoDB Atlas, PostgresQL and Spanner as backing state stores.
  • Document processes and work to optimize LLM-assisted coding workflows, including optimizing code review strategies.
  • Partner with product engineers to support rapid feature development.
  • Validate software is correct and secure.
What we're looking for
Must-haves
  • Experience with GCP
  • Strong Kubernetes experience, preferably using GKE (autopilot & standard), strong understanding of the mechanics of workload scaling in GKE
  • Strong experience with relational databases, managing migrations and experience with Mongo.
  • Strong Python, golang and Typescript programming experience.
  • Strong experience with IaC tooling (OpenTofu) - nice to have Atlantis.
  • Strong grounding in the fundamentals of computation, logic, and algorithms.
  • 5+ years of post-university industry experience
Nice-to-haves
  • Prior experience in a heavily regulated domain like finance or healthtech.
  • Experience with Vertex (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform)
  • Experience building and deploying agentic systems
  • Experience building or maintaining Kubernetes operators
  • Experience with honeycomb.io
  • Experience with Backstage
Education

Bachelor's degree (or higher) in a quantitative discipline: computer science, mathematics, statistics, physical or life sciences, engineering.
Location

Union Square, New York City. In-office 4 days per week.

Anticipated compensation: $200,000 - $250,000 with Equity

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