Staff Multi-Cloud Platform Engineer

About the role

The role is a Staff Engineer on the Platform team at Compa, a venture-backed AI startup. Compa offers a premier, live compensation data platform that helps enterprises make smart and fair decisions in dynamic job markets. The company has been trusted by large corporations like NVIDIA, Stripe, DoorDash, and others.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain core infrastructure across cloud, data, and AI/ML systems
• Own and evolve Compa's Kubernetes-based platforms across AWS, GCP, and Azure
• Drive multi-cloud initiatives including cloud abstraction patterns, cross-cloud identity, networking, data movement, traffic routing, and customer-managed encryption keys
• Define platform standards for Kubernetes cluster architecture, workload isolation, tenancy, networking, security, scaling, upgrades, and operational ownership
• Scale and automate infrastructure services and internal tooling
• Raise the bar on reliability and observability through SLIs/SLOs, monitoring, and incident response
• Design and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, infrastructure automation and paved paths for engineering teams
• Lead platform efforts that reduce developer toil and improve velocity
• Partner with leadership on technical direction and roadmap
• Act as a multiplier, setting standards that help engineers around you level-up

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong emphasis on infrastructure and platform development
• Deep, hands-on experience with managed Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, or AKS) - cluster architecture, networking, scaling, upgrades and production operations
• Strong Python skills applied to infrastructure tooling and backend systems
• Hands-on experience designing and operating production systems across at least two of AWS, GCP, and Azure; this is a must-have
• Experience managing infrastructure across cloud boundaries: identity, networking, data, traffic routing, and failover
• Observability tooling experience such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki or ELK, Jeager, or Tempo
• Comfortable with high ownership and ambiguity - you've built things without a playbook before

Qualifications

• Nice to have: DevOps and SRE practices: infrastructure as code, CI/CD, incident response
• Security fundamentals: IAM, secrets management, encryption, least privilege
• Exposure to MLOps
• Early-stage startup experience

Pay

$200K - $225K