Senior Platform Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and optimize the infrastructure that supports our critical applications and services. This role is focused on implementing geo-replication within Azure Service Bus to address a key resiliency gap. You will act as a senior technical contributor, providing leadership and elevating the team by engineering robust solutions for disaster recovery and high availability. Location: Remote, but onsite in Seattle, WA preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of Azure Service Bus geo-replication.
• Enhance and build out infrastructure using Terraform.
• Improve disaster recovery (DR) and high availability (HA) posture through hands-on implementation and testing.
• Develop and mature operational processes, resiliency practices, and runbooks.
• Mentor a small engineering team and provide technical leadership.
• Participate in on-call rotations and provide production support to diagnose and resolve issues.
• Manage and optimize Azure costs and governance.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure roles with a focus on DR/HA.
• Hands-on experience implementing geo-replication in production environments, specifically with Azure Service Bus.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with strong experience in Terraform.
• Strong understanding of enterprise messaging platforms, pub/sub architectures, and resiliency concepts.
• Experience with business continuity, DR testing, failover, and failback procedures.
• Demonstrated ability to confidently discuss RTO vs. RPO, disaster recovery exercises, and business continuity planning.
• Strong scripting skills for automation tasks (e.g., Python, Bash, or Go).

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in highly transactional environments such as banking, financial services, insurance, or enterprise SaaS.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE).

Benefits

• Supplemental benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection.
• ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and 401K program allowing contributions typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure.
• HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan).
• SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions.
• Corporate discount savings program and other discounts.
• On-demand training program.
• Access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure.
• Certification discounts and perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA.
• Dedicated customer service team for Consultants to address questions around benefits and other resources.
• Certified Career Coach.