Staff Software Engineer, Bolt

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering roles
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes, Helm, and infrastructure-as-code tooling like Terraform
• Strong software engineering skills, ideally in Go or Python
• Experience building CI/CD systems and improving developer workflows
• Clear understanding of cloud networking, service mesh, and zero-trust design patterns
• Hands-on experience with observability tools and setting SLOs (e.g., Datadog)
• Ability to lead architectural design and cross-team technical projects
• Track record of mentoring senior engineers and influencing infrastructure maturity

Desirable

• As a Staff Platform Engineer, you’ll lead foundational work that enables every engineering team at Bolt to ship fast, securely, and reliably
• You’ll architect cloud-native infrastructure. You’ll improve developer experience and reliability. You’ll collaborate across product, security, compliance, and infrastructure to ensure our platform scales with the business
• You’ll treat infrastructure like a product and internal developers like customers. You’ll model excellence while mentoring senior engineers and influencing system-wide standards
• Please note, this is a contract-to-hire opportunity with the option to convert to full-time after 3–6 months
• Designing and evolving Bolt’s Kubernetes-based platform and GitOps infrastructure
• Driving developer experience improvements across CI/CD, secrets management, and observability
• Implementing scalable, secure systems for networking, identity, and service-to-service communication
• Building shared platform tooling that is resilient and easy to adopt
• Supporting critical compliance efforts including PCI-DSS and SOC2
• Partnering with SDEs to improve incident response, SLOs, and reliability metrics
• Collaborating cross-functionally to accelerate product velocity and reduce cognitive load
• Mentoring other engineers on infrastructure design, reliability, and security best practices
• Leading cross-org platform initiatives with clear communication and ownership
• Documenting, sharing, and evangelizing platform standards and practices

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