Senior Platform Engineer (DevX)

The role

A Senior Platform Engineer will design and implement developer experience roadmaps and application patterns. You will build tools for Amazon EKS and promote secure AI adoption within the enterprise software team.

What you will do

• Build consistent application patterns to deploy to Amazon EKS
• Promote AI adoption in a secure and consistent model
• Establish AI guardrails, observability and governance
• Build guard rails and out-of-the-box platform functionalities for golden path deployment model
• Lead long term developer experience road map
• Engineer resilient traffic paths via chaos tests, automated remediation, and MTTR reduction
• Incorporate observability services for end-to-end application monitoring and alerting
• Provide approachable docs and diagnostics
• Optimize performance and cost
• Steward code lifecycle and adoption

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building developer tooling and deployment patterns
• Comfortable with performing PoC to evaluate new technology: AI Platform, AI models, introducing new developer experience products
• Proficiency in at least one language (Go, TypeScript, Python, C#)
• Disciplined SCM workflows (branching, reviews, automated gates)
• Deep working knowledge architecture knowledge of designing, developing and deploying application to Amazon EKS
• Deep working knowledge of CI/CD build pipeline with Github or Gitlab
• Competence leveraging observability & SLOs (metrics, tracing, structured logs, L4/L7 telemetry, end-to-end request path, visibility into applied policies, SLI/SLO definition & enforcement)
• Experience with using Terraform or CDK, GitOps (GH Actions, Gitlab CI), progressive/canary rollouts, policy-as-code integration
• Experience with AI-assisted development process and understand how to navigate benefits and challenges of leveraging AI to accelerate deliverables

Nice to have

• If you don’t meet 100% of the preferred skills and experience, we encourage you to still apply!

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Medical/dental/vision coverage
• Life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Many other perks

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. person as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.15 or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license
• The person hired will have access to information and items controlled by U.S. export control regulations (ITAR)

About the company

K2 is building the largest and highest-power satellites ever flown. They are a high-growth Series D-funded company mass-producing satellite platforms for missions from LEO to deep space.