Staff Platform Engineer

The role

You will design and evolve cloud-native platform components on Kubernetes and AWS. You will build a self-service observability platform and abstractions to help engineers manage their own services.

What you will do

• Review the current platform and propose better solutions.
• Design and evolve cloud-native platform components on Kubernetes and AWS.
• Build abstractions like defaults, templates, CLIs, and operators for observability.
• Find the root cause of cost, reliability and developer-experience problems.
• Set standards and guidelines through RFCs.
• Pair on designs, review proposals and mentor engineers.

Required qualifications

• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and its ecosystem, from running real clusters.
• Excellent communication skills in both English and Portuguese.
• Proficiency with AWS (or GCP or Azure) in production.
• Strong software engineering skills.
• Experience in platform engineering, SRE or infrastructure.
• Experience using observability in production (metrics, logs or traces).
• Prior experience in AWS, Kubernetes, Software Engineering, and Observability Practices with open source solutions are mandatory.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Tempo or similar open source tools.
• Built internal tools, CLIs or Kubernetes operators; Crossplane experience.
• Service mesh knowledge (Istio, Linkerd or similar).
• Cost optimization experience (FinOps).
• A strong sense of ownership, and joy in building tools that help other developers succeed.
• CNCF certifications (CKA, CKS, CKAD, PCA, OTCA).

Benefits

• Free Gold+ membership with access to onsite gyms, digital fitness programs, and online wellness resources.
• Add up to three family members to the wellness plan.
• Personalized emotional wellbeing program with 52 individual therapy sessions per year.
• Health, dental, and life insurance.
• Flexible work options including hybrid and remote.
• Home office reimbursement.
• Vacations after 6 months.
• 3 additional days off per year plus 1 day off for each year of tenure (up to 5 additional days).
• An extra holiday for your birthday.
• 100% paid parental leave.
• Access to world-class platforms and personalized development roadmaps.

Before you apply

• This role is only open to candidates in Brazil.

About the company

Wellhub is revolutionizing workplace wellness with a platform that connects employees to fitness, mindfulness, therapy, nutrition, and sleep. Headquartered in NYC, they aim to make every company a wellness company.