Lead Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

About the role

Founded in 1992 in Dover, NH, Planet Fitness is one of the largest and fastest-growing franchisors and operators of fitness centers in the world by number of members and locations. As of March 31, 2026, Planet Fitness had approximately 21.5 million members and 2,909 clubs in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Canada, Panama, Mexico, Australia and Spain. The Company’s mission is to enhance people’s lives by providing a high-quality fitness experience in a welcoming, non-intimidating environment, which we call the Judgement Free Zone®.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with the Director, IT Infrastructure & Cloud to execute the IT vision for Planet Fitness.
• Drive platform engineering projects from planning through execution and delivery.
• Support weekly team meetings to review work progress, remove blockers, and align priorities.
• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure in AWS, with contributions to Azure and other platforms.
• Own and evolve the internal developer platform service catalog.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code.
• Guide Kubernetes (EKS) operations including deployment strategies and scaling.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and developer enablement tooling.
• Define and track KPIs for platform performance, reliability, and developer productivity.
• Build a forward-looking roadmap aligned with business goals.
• Collaborate with app/dev, data, and InfoSec teams to align platform capabilities with business needs.
• Ensure compliance with security guidelines and vulnerability remediation SLAs.
• Document systems, workflows, and architecture for transparency and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to Agile practices including sprint planning, retrospectives, and iterative delivery.
• Monitor and troubleshoot systems using tools such as Datadog and PagerDuty.
• Drive team projects including support and access requests, threat modeling sessions, and on-call rotation.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer information systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 7 years experience in a Cloud, DevOps, or Platform Engineering role.
• Proven experience leading technical projects and mentoring engineers.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (preferred), Azure, and other cloud platforms.
• Proficiency in Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferred) and CI/CD tooling.
• Familiarity with Git/GitHub, Jira, and Confluence.
• Hands-on experience with static analysis tools.
• Strong communication and presentation skills across all levels of the organization.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and Scrum practices is highly valued.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with initiative, creativity, and strategic thinking.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Exceptional written documentation and communication skills, especially when working across teams.
• Extremely detail-oriented, efficient, and organized with an exceptional ability to establish priorities and objectives.

Qualifications

• Results-driven entrepreneurial mindset, demonstrating initiative and creativity.
• Ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
• Cooperative team player with an upbeat, positive, “can-do” attitude!

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including core medical, dental, vision, life and disability as well as supplemental accident, hospital and critical illness coverage options.
• Time off program (including volunteer time).
• Childcare reimbursement.
• Paid parental leave.
• Pet care reimbursement.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Free Black Card membership.
• Learning and development programs.
• A whole host of engagement activities.
• 401(k) Plan with safe harbor employer matching.
• Employee stock purchase plan.

Schedule

This role follows a hybrid schedule and requires regular, in-person work at our Hampton, NH or Boston, MA office. Our hybrid model is M/T/W in office and TH/F are optional work-from-home. Candidates must reside within commuting distance of one of these locations. Fully remote work is not available for this role.

Pay

The salary for NH-based and MA-based employees hired into this role will be aligned with the range below. This is a good faith estimate, and the amount of base salary will correspond with a candidate’s professional experience, qualifications and internal equity. Annual Base Salary Range $155,000-$170,000