Staff Platform Engineer, Infrastructure

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.

Priorities

• US Citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret security clearance.

Additional Requirements

• Work Location— Long Beach, CA, or Denver, CO.
• Onsite requirements are subject to change, particularly when work on classified systems is required.
• On an average week, you can expect to spend at least 3 days per week in office.
• Physical demands—the physical demands of the job, including bending, sitting, lifting and driving.