alkira
Senior Platform Infrastructure Software Engineer
United States · Senior
No sponsorship$85k-$155kDetected 2 days ago
PythonGoCode ReviewKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDLinuxPrometheusDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringTCP/IPDNSSD-WANLoad BalancingCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingArgo CD
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About the role
- Our customers are engineers, and the output is code, Terraform configuration/modules, Go and Python tooling, cluster and service automation.
Responsibilities
- Own the global Kubernetes cluster footprint across regions and cloud providers: provisioning, upgrades, multi-tenancy, resource and network policy, and failure isolation.
- Own the internal cluster running CI/CD runners and build platforms: capacity, isolation, scaling, and the build performance every team feels daily.
- Own the shared infrastructure other teams consume - managed databases, object storage buckets, container registries, and build platforms including provisioning paths, access model, and cost.
- Own the full lifecycle of shared platform services such as internal PKI, vaults, Kubernetes operators.
- Own disaster recovery for the platform: backup and restore, replication and failover design, documented RTO and RPO targets, and regular DR exercises that prove recovery works.
- Design and publish reusable Terraform/OpenTofu modules that let other teams deliver their own infrastructure faster, with correctness and policy built in rather than reviewed in. Treat adoption by other teams as the measure of whether a module succeeded.
- Own the observability stack and set the standard other teams instrument against.
- Build production tooling in Go or Python. A significant share of this role is software engineering, not configuration
- Mentor engineers through code review, design review, and technical guidance
- Drive down cost and eliminate drift: orphaned resources, stale state, pipelines outliving the services they built.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 5+ years of professional experience in infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or SRE engineering, including production ownership.
- Deep production Kubernetes experience operating clusters, not only deploying to them.
- Experience with observability platforms, telemetry systems, logging, distributed tracing, and monitoring architectures.
- Proven ability to influence engineering strategy across organizations and mentor technical talent.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer-sponsored visa (e.g., H-1B) now or in the future. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position at this time.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer-sponsored visa (e.g., H-1B) now or in the future.
Nice to have
- Strong programming ability in Go, Python, or a comparable language.
- Experience running stateful shared services/infrastructure in production (message broker, databases, certificate authority, etc...) or comparable.
- Deep Linux fundamentals:
- process and resource behavior, and system-level debugging under load.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, load balancing, and service-to-service communication.
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider and the ability to work across others.
- Sound judgment about blast radius, and the discipline to make risky changes reversible.
- Strong technical judgment, problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills.
Skills
- Platform Infrastructure does not own customer-facing features.
Compensation
- The salary range for this position is $ 84,629- $ 155,152 USD.
- Your actual base salary and level will be determined on a case by case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge, skills, experience, education and location.
- We do not tolerate unlawful discrimination in any employment decisions, including recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotion, benefits, discipline, termination, job assignments or training.
Benefits
- We do not tolerate unlawful discrimination in any employment decisions, including recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotion, benefits, discipline, termination, job assignments or training.
Company info
- Today, as part of Lumen, we are bringing that cloud-native operating model to a global network foundation trusted by the world's largest enterprises.
- Our platform helps customers move faster without managing hardware, stitching together providers, or operating fragmented cloud networks.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer-sponsored visa (e.g., H-1B) now or in the future.
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