Staff Platform Engineer, Cloud Developer Experience

Accountabilities:

• • Own and continuously evolve the CI/CD architecture and developer-facing delivery experience.
  • Design, operate, and improve production-grade delivery infrastructure for a globally distributed engineering organization.
  • Drive improvements in pipeline reliability, speed, scalability, and predictability.
  • Define and maintain paved paths that enable product teams to ship quickly and safely without requiring deep platform expertise.
  • Own the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle, from code merge through production deployment.
  • Champion progressive delivery practices, including canary deployments and automated rollbacks.
  • Build tooling and workflows that make deployments observable, repeatable, reliable, and self-service.
  • Own and evolve the Internal Developer Portal and the surrounding self-service developer experience.
  • Partner with cloud infrastructure teams while maintaining ownership of the developer-facing delivery layer.
  • Lead cross-functional technical initiatives and influence engineering practices across teams and time zones.
  • Develop production-quality tooling in Go and Python.
  • Identify and embed AI-powered tools and workflows that generate sustainable improvements in engineering productivity, quality, and developer experience.

  Requirements

  • Significant experience in Platform Engineering or Developer Experience, particularly in CI/CD, software delivery, or related domains.
  • Experience working in organizations with several hundred or more engineers is strongly preferred.
  • Proven experience owning and operating CI/CD platforms at the administrative and architectural level, including security, configuration, governance, and developer enablement.
  • Demonstrated ability to design, scale, and operate reliable software delivery systems in production.
  • Strong hands-on software engineering experience, including production-quality development in Go.
  • Practical understanding of progressive delivery practices such as canary deployments and automated rollbacks.
  • Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and Kubernetes-based platforms.
  • Strong interest in applying AI tools to improve engineering velocity, software quality, and developer experience.
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and technical influence skills, with the ability to work effectively with senior engineers and engineering leaders across multiple teams and time zones.
  • Experience building or maintaining an Internal Developer Platform in production is a plus.
  • Experience working across both Software Engineering and Platform Engineering teams is a plus.
  • Interest in security and familiarity with concepts such as RBAC and OAuth are advantageous.

  Benefits

  • Base compensation range of $223,100–$305,000 USD, depending on experience, expertise, and other relevant factors.
  • Potential equity participation.
  • Generous benefits program.
  • Opportunity to work on large-scale cloud infrastructure and developer experience initiatives with significant organizational impact.
  • Flexible collaboration within a globally distributed engineering environment.
  • Opportunity to work hands-on with modern CI/CD, Kubernetes, progressive delivery, GitOps, and AI-assisted engineering practices.
  • Staff-level scope with significant technical ownership and influence across the engineering organization.