Senior Platform Engineer (Kubernetes, Application Infrastructure)

The role

You will design, develop, and operate Kubernetes clusters on AWS infrastructure. You will build systems and tooling to increase deployment safety and release velocity. You will also drive architectural decisions to improve scalability, resiliency, performance, and security.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and operate WHOOP’s Kubernetes clusters running on AWS infrastructure
• Drive architectural decisions to improve scalability, resiliency, performance, and security
• Build systems and tooling that increase deployment safety and accelerate release velocity to Kubernetes
• Advance CI/CD capabilities to support frequent, reliable production deployments
• Lead developer productivity improvements through tooling, automation, and platform integrations
• Partner with application, security, and data teams to embed secure-by-default infrastructure practices
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems
• Mentor and provide technical leadership to engineers on the Application Infrastructure team
• Help define and execute the long-term roadmap for infrastructure and Kubernetes management

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform, Site Reliability, CloudEngineering, or Backend Software Engineering roles
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture and core components
• Strong knowledge of container networking concepts, including overlay networking, service meshes, and network policies
• Experience with multi-cluster Kubernetes environments and inter-cluster communication patterns
• Hands-on experience operating cloud infrastructure, preferably in AWS (e.g., IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, CloudTrail, Organizations)
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. Terraform)
• Experience developing backend or infrastructure-adjacent services using Java, C#, or Python
• Proven ability to evaluate system performance, identify bottlenecks, and use data to drive improvements
• Experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders and prioritizing work for maximum business impact

Nice to have

• Experience operating Kafka or other large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with Kubernetes security best practices, including RBAC, secrets management, and pod security standards
• Exposure to service reliability practices such as SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
• Prior experience supporting compliance or security-focused infrastructure initiatives

Benefits

• base salary
• generous equity package

Before you apply

• The successful candidate must be prepared to relocate if necessary to work out of the Boston, MA office
• WHOOP participates in E-verify to determine employment eligibility

About the company

WHOOP empowers members to perform at a higher level and live longer through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives. The Application Infrastructure team owns and operates critical shared infrastructure, including Kubernetes and Kafka.