Staff Platform Engineer

The role

The Staff Platform Engineer will own the migration of a live legacy estate onto the internal developer platform. This role involves designing operational regimes for scaling, extending platform reach, and managing Day-2 operations.

What you will do

• Lead migrations from legacy infrastructure to modern platforms, through decommissioning.
• Design migration strategy, including sequencing, cutover, rollback, and validation.
• Minimize disruption to dependent teams and turn one-off migrations into repeatable patterns.
• Extend the platform to new teams and toolchains, defining and documenting integration patterns.
• Design Day-2 operations for capacity, upgrades, and lifecycle at future scale.
• Build auditing for configuration drift, dependency currency, and secret/certificate lifecycle.
• Maintain and review IaC, pipeline, and configuration standards.
• Design monitoring and alerting, and define SLOs with internal customers.
• Lead complex incident response and drive postmortems to structural fixes.
• Build automation and agent workflows with appropriate guardrails and human review.

Required qualifications

• 7–10 years of related experience in infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Demonstrated experience migrating production systems off legacy infrastructure and onto a new platform — sequencing, coexistence, cutover, and rollback — without disrupting the teams that depend on th
• Wide-ranging hands-on depth across AWS, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Demonstrated experience operating and scaling CI/CD and GitOps delivery systems, including leading incident response in complex, multi-system environments and converting failures into structural fixes
• Demonstrated experience leading technical work through others — directing engineers on an initiative, mentoring, and driving design review — and working effectively with partners outside your own area
• Enough hard-won depth to supervise AI-generated work.

Benefits

• competitive salaries
• stock options
• 100% medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees
• 80% healthcare premiums for dependents
• at least 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents (up to 20 weeks for birthing parents)
• generous vacation policies

Before you apply

• Relocation assistance is available.

About the company

Form Energy is an American manufacturing and energy technology company. They are revolutionizing energy storage with cost-effective, multi-day technology designed to keep the electric grid secure and reliable.