Platform Engineer- GCP and Kubernetes experience is a must

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We’re looking for a highly skilled Platform Engineer to help scale and strengthen our Kubernetes-based production environment. In this role, you’ll take ownership of platform reliability, performance, and observability while working hands-on across Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform, and modern infrastructure automation. You’ll collaborate closely with Engineering and Product teams to influence architecture decisions, solve complex performance challenges, and design resilient, scalable systems that support our growing platform. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in technical problem-solving, cares deeply about operational excellence, and enjoys building platforms that engineers love to use.

Responsibilities:

Maintain and extend our Kubernetes platform

Improve Performance & Reliability of our production platform

Ensure proper observability of the production systems

Assist with database and service performance tuning

Collaborate with Development Engineers on impacts of new features

Identify architecture bottlenecks and work with Engineering on new solutions

Experience handling on-call response for public-facing services

Collaborate with Support on operational runbooks

Requirements:

Minimum 3+ years Kubernetes

Operating System: Linux

GCP Cloud experience is mandatory, good to have multi-cloud experience.

Terraform

Container lifecycle

Programming Go, Python or similar

Database optimization

Network level troubleshooting

• Education and Experience:
• •At least 6 - 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 1 year experience; or equivalent experience preferred.
• •Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred

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