Staff Platform Engineer

The role

You will own the AWS platform that underpins all of Grayscale's technology delivery. You will lead cloud initiatives including account and environment foundations, migrations, developer self-service, reliability, and cost governance.

What you will do

• Lead AWS cloud initiatives end to end, including new account and environment builds, workload migrations, and platform modernization
• Own the AWS landing zone and account vending model
• Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform, Docker, and related IaC tooling
• Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines in GitLab
• Embed security, compliance, and governance into the platform by default
• Lead FinOps practices, including tagging, cost visibility, Savings Plans, rightsizing, and cost tradeoff recommendations
• Own platform reliability, including observability, SLOs, DR and multi-region patterns, capacity planning, and incident and on-call practices
• Build golden paths and reusable Terraform modules for self-service
• Ensure high-quality infrastructure delivery through collaboration with product, engineering, and security
• Set architecture standards and technical direction for cloud and delivery

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure roles with deep AWS experience across Organizations, networking, IAM, serverless, and containers
• Demonstrable track record of setting technical direction that others adopted
• Experience leading a cloud migration, account restructure, or greenfield AWS environment build
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
• Deep experience with containerization (Docker, ECS, EKS) and serverless architectures (Lambda, Step Functions)
• Expertise in CI/CD pipeline design and management
• Solid understanding of security, compliance automation, and policy-as-code
• Deep knowledge of cloud governance, cost optimization, and architectural best practices on AWS
• Ability to translate business and engineering needs into infrastructure solutions and platform capabilities
• Experience building an internal developer platform or self-service tooling treated as a product
• Strong Agile proficiency

Nice to have

• GitLab
• AWS certifications (expected, or willingness to obtain)

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401(k)-retirement plan with company match
• Generous PTO policy
• Flexible work environment with remote weeks
• Fertility and family planning benefits
• Health allowances
• Commuter reimbursement
• Other perks

About the company

Grayscale is the largest digital asset-focused investment platform in the world by AUM and offers the broadest selection of digital asset investment products in the U.S. based on number of products.