Senior Platform Engineer

The role

You will own core messaging and container orchestration platforms. You will lead the operations, scaling, and tuning of Kafka clusters and Kubernetes environments.

What you will do

• Administer and optimize Amazon EKS environments
• Lead operations and reliability of the Kafka platform
• Define SLOs for availability and latency
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using Sumo Logic
• Partner with software engineering teams to design scalable applications
• Manage cloud environments using Infrastructure as Code
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• On call experience

Required qualifications

• Proven track record running containerized workloads in production
• Strong experience with any Kubernetes environment
• Familiarity with core cloud infrastructure concepts (compute, networking, IAM)
• Solid experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar Infrastructure as Code tools
• Ability to write automation and tooling in Python, Go, or Node, and Bash
• Some experience designing and operating GitOps workflows using GitHub Actions or something similar

Nice to have

• Production Kafka experience
• Experience with Kafka ecosystem tools (Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, ksqlDB)
• Experience writing custom GitHub Actions or composite actions
• Experience running stateful workloads and data infrastructure on Kubernetes
• Passion for Developer Experience (DevEx) and optimizing CI/CD workflows

About the company

CloudZero is the AI ROI Company that built the financial control plane for AI. The company connects AI spend to outcomes for customers including Coinbase, Duolingo, DoorDash, and Shutterstock.