Staff Platform Engineer, Infrastructure

About the role

Lead the design of foundational cloud infrastructure that will be rolled out across the enterprise. Work with stakeholders across engineering and business functions to gather requirements, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and reach consensus. Design and operate the foundational multi-cloud environment, including the account structure, guardrails, and shared networking and identity that every team builds on top of. Own the self-service experience for how engineering teams provision accounts, bootstrap resources, and deploy onto paved roads, so teams can move quickly while staying inside a governed, secure foundation. Author and maintain reusable infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform) that other teams build on, and establish the standards and paved-road patterns for how it is used. Establish CI/CD, testing, and deployment standards that scale across the enterprise rather than any single product, and drive their adoption across teams. Build the self-service tooling and paved-road patterns that let engineering teams provision, deploy, and operate their own systems without depending on a central queue. Own technical evaluation and selection of cloud services, infrastructure tooling, and platforms, making build-vs-buy decisions based on capability, compliance requirements, and speed to value. Act as the technical anchor for the first infrastructure engineers on the team — leading, coaching, and mentoring them and setting a high engineering bar. Partner with engineering, security, and IT teams to ensure infrastructure meets government security and compliance requirements across data classification levels. Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery, and help the team adopt them as a force multiplier.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of foundational cloud infrastructure that will be rolled out across the enterprise.
• Work with stakeholders across engineering and business functions to gather requirements, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and reach consensus.
• Design and operate the foundational multi-cloud environment, including the account structure, guardrails, and shared networking and identity that every team builds on top of.
• Own the self-service experience for how engineering teams provision accounts, bootstrap resources, and deploy onto paved roads, so teams can move quickly while staying inside a governed, secure foundation.
• Author and maintain reusable infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform) that other teams build on, and establish the standards and paved-road patterns for how it is used.
• Establish CI/CD, testing, and deployment standards that scale across the enterprise rather than any single product, and drive their adoption across teams.
• Build the self-service tooling and paved-road patterns that let engineering teams provision, deploy, and operate their own systems without depending on a central queue.
• Own technical evaluation and selection of cloud services, infrastructure tooling, and platforms, making build-vs-buy decisions based on capability, compliance requirements, and speed to value.
• Act as the technical anchor for the first infrastructure engineers on the team — leading, coaching, and mentoring them and setting a high engineering bar.
• Partner with engineering, security, and IT teams to ensure infrastructure meets government security and compliance requirements across data classification levels.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery, and help the team adopt them as a force multiplier.

Qualifications

• Typically 8+ years of software engineering, DevOps, SRE, or cloud engineering experience with a track record of technical leadership, including owning roadmaps, making architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers.
• Strong general software background, with real experience building, deploying, and operating production applications on cloud.
• You understand a professional software development lifecycle end to end, including how applications are built, tested, released, and run in production.
• You understand what constitutes maintainable code.
• Deep experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including deploying and running production workloads at scale.
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform), authoring and maintaining reusable modules and infrastructure that other engineers depend on and build on top of.
• Experience building and setting modern CI/CD, continuous testing, and deployment standards, and driving their adoption across multiple teams or products.
• Demonstrated ability to work across a broad technical surface area, context-switching between infrastructure, application development, and platform architecture, and to work across teams to understand requirements and seek consensus.
• Recognized depth in one or more of: CI/CD and build/release tooling, cloud networking, infrastructure-as-code at scale, or developer platforms and shared engineering tooling, with working fluency across the rest.
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals (e.g. HTTP, ports, DNS, firewalls, security groups, cloud networking primitives) sufficient to design and troubleshoot connectivity between environments.
• Experience using AI-powered development tools to deliver production code and automate routine work, and the ability to leverage AI as a force multiplier for yourself and your team.
• Able to exercise cross-organizational influence and to coach and mentor a team through the delivery of complex technical projects.
• Self-directed and comfortable operating with high autonomy in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift and the playbook is being written in real time.
• Able to work through significant ambiguity to define requirements and deliver results.

Preferred Skills And Experience

• Enterprise experience building and operating infrastructure at scale in a high-growth or large technology organization.
• Experience with containers and orchestration, service mesh, and artifact/registry management.
• Experience designing and improving the developer experience, or building and maintaining the core developer processes and automation that engineering teams rely on.
• Familiarity with government cloud environments (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government) and authorization frameworks (FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, IL4/IL5).
• Experience deploying infrastructure in government, defense, or regulated environments with security and compliance constraints.
• Experience designing or maintaining an enterprise network.
• Experience with observability, reliability engineering, IAM/secrets management.
• Background in developer tooling, platform engineering, or internal platform teams at high-growth technology companies.
• Active U.S. Secret or Top-Secret security clearance.