Senior Platform Engineer

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help harden, simplify, and operationalize our production platform to meet the demands of enterprise customers. This is not a feature-churn role. The core need centers on infrastructure correctness, system reliability, developer experience, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve our core platform infrastructure—networking, compute, storage, and deployment pipelines—on Google Cloud Platform.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that enable fast, safe, and reliable deployments.
• Define and enforce infrastructure as code (IaC) practices using Terraform, Pulumi, or similar.
• Unify logging and observability across services—making the platform easier to understand, debug, and operate.
• Collaborate with fellow Engineers to maintain clean network boundaries, environment isolation, and operational hygiene.
• Drive developer productivity by improving tooling, reducing toil, and building internal platform capabilities.
• Contribute to engineering culture and technical direction—helping the team operate at a higher level.

Why This Role Matters

GC AI is at an inflection point. The platform that got us here was built for speed — now it needs to be built for scale. As we grow into larger, more demanding enterprise customers, infrastructure correctness and reliability aren't just engineering concerns; they're the foundation of customer trust. This role exists to close the gap between where the platform is and where it needs to be.

What You'll Do

• Deep in GCP. You have production experience with IAM, service accounts, project isolation, and networking on Google Cloud Platform. You've operated infrastructure that real customers depend on.
• Infrastructure as code is your default. You've built and maintained IaC with Terraform, Pulumi, or similar. You treat infrastructure drift like a bug.
• A strong backend engineer. You write production-quality code, TypeScript preferred, and you're comfortable reasoning across the stack when platform decisions touch application behavior.
• Observability-minded. You've built or maintained logging and observability pipelines at scale. You know what it takes to make a system legible to the people who run it.
• Pragmatic about risk. You reason about operational risk clearly, make tradeoffs deliberately, and ship infrastructure improvements without waiting for perfect conditions.
• An owner, not a renter. You fix problems without being asked, follow through on every detail, and communicate proactively when circumstances change.

Nice to Have

• Experience acting as a technical lead on a team or vertical; strong communication skills.
• Experience with platform engineering, internal developer platforms (IDPs), or developer tooling.
• Prior work in regulated or enterprise-focused environments.
• Familiarity with SRE practices, incident response, or on-call workflows.