Whoop
Platform Engineer II (Application Infrastructure)
Boston, MA · Mid
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 11 days ago
PythonJavaGoBashDistributed SystemsPostgreSQLAWSCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformCI/CDDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringData ScienceCybersecurityIncident ResponseCommunicationProblem Solving
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Lottery odds40
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About the role
- WHOOP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-verify https://www.e-verify.gov/ to determine employment eligibility.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure cloud infrastructure in AWS using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform
- Build and manage IAM systems, access controls, and least-privilege policies to reduce risk and limit blast radius in our systems
- Build and maintain secure, reliable, and scalable AWS and Kubernetes environments across multiple accounts and services
- Collaborate with platform, product, and data science teams to deliver resilient infrastructure that enables rapid product development and member trust.
- Develop and improve guardrails for cloud security and compliance, including IAM, backups, logging, and configuration management.
- Drive best practices in reliability, performance, cost optimization, and security across the platform.
Requirements
- 2-4 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles
- Hands-on experience with AWS services, including IAM, EC2, S3, MSK, and Aurora
- Strong understanding of cloud security and reliability principles, including least privilege, logging/monitoring, resource isolation, and disaster recovery.
- Experience with containerized platforms such as Kubernetes or Amazon EKS.
- Proficiency with scripting or programming languages (Python, Go, Java, or Bash).
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, and automated reliability tooling.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex distributed systems
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code in production environments (Terraform preferred).
- Effective communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams
- Expertise in managing CI/CD pipelines for building application code across multiple languages
Nice to have
- Experience with relational database systems like PostgreSQL
- Experience implementing policy-as-code or access control frameworks
- Exposure to modern edge and delivery technologies such as Cloudflare, CDN configuration, and TLS/SSL certificate management.
- You thrive on ownership and want to shape the foundation of WHOOP's platform.
- You enjoy improving the development experience through changes to the infrastructure that the department's applications are built on.
- You are curious about how systems fail and motivated to proactively prevent issues
- Learn more about our Software Org and how to be successful in your engineering career at WHOOP via our Career Framework https://engineering.prod.whoop.com/careerframework.
- This role is based in the WHOOP office located in Boston, MA.
Skills
- Protecting our members' data and ensuring our systems scale securely and reliably is core to this mission.
Company info
- At WHOOP, we're on a mission to unlock human performance and healthspan.
- At WHOOP, we believe there is much more to a candidate than what is written on paper, and we value character as much as experience.
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