Job Title: Platform Engineer

Company Name: Spoton

Job Url: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/spoton/bb11e09d-c41c-4117-9bbc-8d4d8a7a40d9?utm_source=jobright&jr_id=699667a281476f6176ae3793

Job Description: You're a Great Fit For This Role If:

You're energized by making other developers more productive: You take satisfaction in seeing your fellow engineers succeed through the tools you create.

You want to work with both code and infrastructure: You’re ready to solve the problem at hand, whether it requires writing code on an IDE, running commands on a terminal window, or browsing a cloud dashboard.

You enjoy a variety of challenges: You love having weeks where you need to be deep in programming, and others where you are troubleshooting failed deployments. 

You use AI in your daily work: You are fully embracing AI capabilities to assist with responsibilities like coding, document writing, and more.

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years of experience as a software or platform engineer

Strong programming skills in an object-oriented language and experience building backend systems, APIs, or developer tools

Experience developing and running applications with Docker or other container runtimes

Availability to work during core team hours, 9 am to 12 pm EST

Ability to participate in 12-hour on-call shifts as required

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with cloud-native container runtimes technologies like Kubernetes

Experience with GitOps deployment technologies like Argo CD or Flux CD

Experience with Cloud Infrastructure technologies like Terraform and AWS

You love to seek and implement internal customer feedback to make our products better

You are a self-starter and can define a problem and work towards a solution independently

Ability to bridge the gap between application development and infrastructure management

Responsibilities:

Design and develop tools and services that improve developer productivity and experience

Configure and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support seamless deployment processes

Build and enhance our Internal Developer Platform to streamline development workflows

Create automation solutions for repetitive development and deployment tasks

Work with development teams to identify and address pain points in their workflows

Implement systems that make infrastructure more accessible to product developers

Apply software engineering best practices to infrastructure code and tooling

Collaborate across teams to ensure developer tools integrate well with our technology stack

Measure and optimize the effectiveness of developer tooling

Stay current with emerging technologies and practices in developer experience and platform engineering

Participate in on-call activities to support the stability of our products

Why Join Us?