Lead Platform Engineer-US

THE ROLE

As a Lead Platform Engineer you will work in Certinia's Platform Engineering team, leading the technical direction of the platform on which Certinia's AI agents and services run. The platform is Kubernetes on AWS with a service mesh for zero-trust networking, and provides the runtime, identity, AI-gateway, cost-governance and audit layers that let AI workloads operate safely against customer Salesforce data. You will work across the stack, from the Helm charts and Terraform that provision infrastructure, to the services that make up the platform's authentication and gateway layers, to the CI/CD pipelines and tooling that application teams rely on. Application teams are your primary users; you will help them ship features safely and efficiently.

What You Will Do In This Role

• Define the technical direction of the platform across its sub-domains.
• Establish and codify the team's best practices, standards and conventions.
• Lead improvements in architecture, performance, reliability and security.
• Detect bad-quality legacy code and infrastructure, and make balanced proposals, considering cost and benefit, to address it.
• Coordinate the work of other engineers across larger phases and epics, including engineers from other teams when initiatives span boundaries.
• Routinely represent the platform team in cross-organisation meetings, security, application engineering, product, SRE, compliance.
• Provide technical leadership by proposing new approaches and technologies and following them through to acceptance or rejection.
• Engage with stakeholders and engineering management to clarify requirements and provide technical input.
• Mentor senior engineers across the platform organisation; contribute to recruitment and to professional development.
• Owning incident-response and disaster-recovery process when required.

What You Need To Be Successful In This Role

• Deep experience in a meaningful programming language, we write Go, but are happy with experience in Java, Scala, Rust, Kotlin, C# or another systems-or-services language.
• An extensive track record of designing, building and operating production platforms at scale.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes, beyond using it, including the ecosystem (controllers, control-plane, operators, admission control, networking, storage).
• Deep experience with at least one major public cloud, AWS preferred, but extensive experience in another major cloud is acceptable.
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred) at scale, multi-account, multi-environment, with rigorous review and state-management discipline.
• Experience with CI/CD at scale, designing pipelines, managing release artefacts, and integrating quality gates.
• Strong networking fundamentals: TCP/HTTP, DNS, TLS, mTLS, service identity.
• Promised ability to deliver high-quality, complex platform work to time, scope and quality.
• Experience coordinating and leading other engineers, formally or informally.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, you can negotiate technical direction with peers, explain trade-offs to engineering and product leadership, and partner with security and SRE to land cross-cutting improvements.
• Comfortable assessing, learning and introducing new technology.
• A clear position on what makes a good platform, and the judgement to recognise when our context calls for something different.

The Reasonably Expected Base Salary Range for this Full-Time Position is $128,900– $161,100 annually.

Please note that the final offer will be determined by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s relevant experience, skills, and qualifications, as well as internal equity and market data.

In addition to a Competitive Base Salary, Certinia Offers:

• Holistic Wellness Program: Monthly wellness stipends to use toward gym memberships, mental health resources, or fitness equipment, alongside access to premium wellness apps.
• Flexible Work Environment: We support work-life balance through a variety of remote, hybrid and flexible scheduling options for many roles.
• Industry-Leading Parental Leave: Generous fully-paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents to support your family’s newest additions.
• Comprehensive Coverage: Premium medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) with a competitive company match, and generous paid time off (PTO) plus observed company holidays.
• Growth & Development: A commitment to your professional evolution through internal workshops, skill-building initiatives, and supported learning paths.