Staff Platform Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Define architecture and best practices for the platform and infrastructure layer
• ▹Own the deploy pipeline and lead the move to a GitOps model (Argo)
• ▹Design and harden multi-tenant isolation and blast-radius protection, including the path to dedicated/single-tenant deployments
• ▹Lead database stabilization and the platform work behind performance, availability and safe migrations
• ▹Build infrastructure foundations for compliance-heavy and government deployments: encryption, authentication, boundary and data-flow design
• ▹Set the standard for observability, on-call and operational readiness across engineering
• ▹Collaborate with leadership and product to translate platform capabilities into customer-facing offerings

Requirements

• ▹Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
• ▹10+ years of hands-on experience designing, operating and scaling high-performance production systems
• ▹Deep expertise in Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code, e.g. Terraform
• ▹Strong database proficiency, e.g. Postgres, with performance, availability and migration experience at scale
• ▹Architectural judgment at the system and cross-team level, reasoning about blast radius and the next class of failure before it happens
• ▹Working proficiency in at least one application language, JVM preferred
• ▹Strong security mindset around IaC and secrets management

Soft skills

About the company

Cortex is the Engineering Operations Platform, mission control for the AI software factory. It's a YC company, SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001 certified, used by teams like Rapid7, Xero, BigCommerce, Skyscanner, LetsGetChecked and H&R Block. The 80-person, fully remote team recently raised a $60M Series C led by Scale Ventures, with participation from Sequoia and IVP.