Senior Platform Engineer - Kubernetes

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate WHOOP’s Kubernetes clusters running on AWS infrastructure
• Drive architectural decisions to improve scalability, resiliency, performance, and security across the build and deployment platform
• Build systems and tooling that increase deployment safety and accelerate release velocity to Kubernetes
• Advance CI/CD capabilities to support frequent, reliable production deployments
• Lead developer productivity improvements through tooling, automation, and platform integrations
• Partner with application, security, and data teams to embed secure-by-default infrastructure practices
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems to continuously improve platform reliability
• Mentor and provide technical leadership to engineers on the Application Infrastructure team
• Help define and execute the long-term roadmap for infrastructure and Kubernetes management at WHOOP

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform, Site Reliability, Cloud Engineering, or Backend Software Engineering roles
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture and core components
• Strong knowledge of container networking concepts, including overlay networking, service meshes, and network policies
• Hands-on experience operating cloud infrastructure, preferably in AWS (e.g., IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, CloudTrail, Organizations)
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. Terraform)
• Experience developing backend or infrastructure-adjacent services using Java, C#, or Python
• Proven ability to evaluate system performance, identify bottlenecks, and use data to drive improvements
• Experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders and prioritizing work for maximum business impact

Benefits

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The successful candidate must be prepared to relocate if necessary to work out of the Boston, MA office.

Pay

The U.S. base salary range for this full-time position is $150,000 - $215,000.

Schedule

The role is based in the WHOOP office located in Boston, MA.