[Remote] Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Talently is advertising a Staff Software Engineer, Platform role for a technology company whose identity is not specified. The role focuses on building production platform services and internal developer tools, evolving Google Cloud infrastructure, and improving how teams build, deploy, and operate applications.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain production platform services, APIs, command-line tools, and self-service capabilities
• Develop reusable abstractions that simplify infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, and environment management
• Build and evolve cloud infrastructure on GCP, including production Kubernetes environments on GKE
• Create and maintain reusable Terraform modules and automated infrastructure provisioning workflows
• Improve CI/CD and GitOps processes, integrating them with internal platform tools
• Strengthen platform reliability, security, scalability, and observability through monitoring, alerting, and service objectives
• Lead technical initiatives from architecture and stakeholder alignment through delivery and ongoing operations
• Partner with application teams, mentor engineers, and contribute to shared production on-call support

Skills

• Extensive experience developing and shipping production applications, backend services, APIs, or distributed systems
• Strong proficiency in Go, Python, or another modern backend language, with experience building production software beyond scripts and configuration
• Hands-on experience building internal developer tools, platform services, APIs, CLIs, or self-service infrastructure capabilities
• Deep production experience with Google Cloud Platform and designing, deploying, and operating GKE environments
• Advanced Terraform skills, including reusable modules and automated cloud provisioning
• Strong knowledge of cloud networking, IAM, security, Kubernetes architecture, and distributed systems
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, containerization, and modern software delivery practices
• Ability to independently own complex technical initiatives, make architectural decisions, and collaborate effectively across teams
• Previous experience as a Senior, Staff, or Principal Software Engineer building backend systems
• Experience with internal developer platforms, developer portals, infrastructure control planes, or platform APIs
• Familiarity with Backstage, Atlantis, GitOps, or ArgoCD
• Experience with GKE Gateway API, Cloudflare, WAF, or edge networking
• Knowledge of Redis, service discovery, caching, and distributed application infrastructure
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or other observability frameworks
• Experience implementing cloud cost optimization or FinOps practices
• Background in high-volume e-commerce or other transaction-intensive environments

Benefits

• Remote work

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