Mux
Senior Platform Engineer
Remote, United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 21 days ago
HTMLKubernetesTerraformCI/CDLinuxPlatform EngineeringKafkaDNS
About the role
- Our Platform Engineering team works cross-functionally with product engineers to reduce friction and increase confidence from their first line of code to production.
- Your work will directly influence how quickly we can innovate and how enjoyable that innovation feels for everyone writing and shipping Mux products.
Responsibilities
- Create paved paths from local dev to prod. Build and maintain a cohesive developer journey including local coding environments, build tooling, test workflows, artifact management, and deploy ergonomics so engineers can ship with confidence.
- Make builds faster, safer, and more observable. Improve performance, reliability, "debuggability", and visibility across our CI/CD stack, ensuring teams understand what's happening and can fix issues quickly.
- Partner deeply with product engineering teams. Pair with teams to understand friction points, co-design workflow improvements, and deliver tooling that fits real product needs not just theoretical ones.
- Raise the bar on engineering standards and release quality. Define and evolve best practices for building software, rollout strategies, release automation, and production readiness as Mux scales its delivery maturity.
- Shape the roadmap for developer productivity. Help prioritize and drive high-impact initiatives that keep Mux shipping quickly today and set us up for the next phase of growth.
- You're a strong software engineer who builds durable systems in a primarily Go ecosystem. You're comfortable shipping and maintaining these tools and you bring solid engineering judgment to everything from APIs to automation.
- You build shared service abstractions and automation that connect local dev, builds, tests, and deploys into a clear, reliable path to ship on Kubernetes.
- You operate like a true partner to product teams. You internalize "your problems are our problems," build trust through empathy and follow-through, and enjoy being the multiplier that helps multiple teams succeed.
- Create paved paths from local dev to prod.
Requirements
- You've built and run production clusters that host critical-path workloads, and you know how to keep them healthy through upgrades, hardening and incident response.
- You have a solid grasp of TCP/UDP, HTTP, TLS, DNS, Linux, and how systems behave under load.
- Experience with our toolchain.
- Familiarity working with a monorepo, Argo CD, Terraform, skaffold, or similar tools in the cloud native ecosystem helps you ramp fast and shape what's next.
Nice to have
- hundreds of startups, plus Strava, Patreon, Vimeo, Robinhood, PBS, and Equinox.
- We'd love to hear from you!
- Experience in video or high-throughput systems.
- Background with video ingest/streaming/CDN-style data paths, Kafka-like event streaming, or distributed databases (CockroachDB, ClickHouse) is a plus in our world.
Skills
- Mux is video for developers.
Benefits
- Flexible PTO + 11 company holidays
- Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Fully funded fertility benefits
- HSA available, compatible with high deductible plan only ($100 per single employee/month & $200 per family/month employer contribution)
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Group life insurance
- Medical support concierge service
- Paid parental leave
- Investment in career growth through professional development stipend
- Lunch reimbursement program
- That's why we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.
Company info
- Reimbursements for headphones, cell phones, device upgrades, and SVoD services of Mux customers
- We believe diversity makes us better, and we strive to be inclusive and equitable.
Equal opportunity
- Mux is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse company.
This listing is sourced directly from Mux's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.