Lead Site Reliability Engineer/Cloud Platform Engineer - SF (Remote)

The role

This person will build and run infrastructure for a multi-tenant, security-sensitive B2B cloud product. They will write Go and Python to create automation, provisioning pipelines, and self-service tooling. The role includes operational ownership such as on-call, incident response, and root-cause analysis.

What you will do

• Design and build automation for cloud infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Write production-grade Go and Python services and CLIs.
• Own and evolve the Infrastructure-as-Code stack.
• Operate and scale core platform services including Kubernetes clusters and data stores.
• Build and improve observability and alerting.
• Work with enterprise customers to gather platform requirements and design reusable solutions.
• Own the infrastructure side of customer onboarding.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and lead incident response.
• Partner with security and compliance stakeholders to build platform guardrails.
• Identify and eliminate manual, repetitive, or error-prone infrastructure work.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles with real ownership of production cloud infrastructure.
• Strong software engineering skills in Go and/or Python.
• Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Terraform, Pulumi, or OpenTofu.
• Solid experience with at least one major public cloud (AWS or GCP or Azure).
• Track record of building tools or platforms like internal CLIs, provisioning frameworks, self-service portals, or automation pipelines.
• Comfort operating in a B2B environment with enterprise customers.
• Strong incident-response instincts.
• A bias toward root-causing and automating away recurring problems.
• Ability to lead, mentor, and technically guide a team of junior/early-career platform engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience operating in all three major public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with service mesh (Istio/Envoy), GitOps workflows (ArgoCD/Flux), or policy-as-code (OPA).
• Experience operating stateful systems in production (Aerospike, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Kafka, or GPU-backed inference workloads).
• Experience with security-sensitive or regulated environments (PCI, SOC 2, HIPAA).
• Experience with cost optimization and capacity planning at fleet scale.
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure tooling, or experience building an internal developer platform (IDP).

Benefits

• Work from home expense
• Excellent Health Insurance Options
• Very generous PTO
• Flexible Hours
• Generous Equity

About the company

Skyflow secures the flow of data across datastores, models, and agents. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and was founded in 2019.