Senior Software Engineer, Kard

• Expertise in AWS, particularly with cross-account networking, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, Cognito, and IAM
• Deep experience with Kubernetes, including cluster management, networking, scaling, and security best practices
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and infrastructure automation, enforcing modular, maintainable, and secure infrastructure
• Strong background in CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and incident response, ensuring fast and reliable software delivery
• Experience in build vs. buy decision-making, leveraging third-party automation, open-source tooling, and managed services to optimize cost and efficiency
• Familiarity with developer productivity and observability tooling, such as Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or similar
• Experience designing self-service platforms that reduce cognitive load and streamline engineering workflows
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to align platform work with business needs
• Experience leading technical projects and mentoring engineers, helping bridge platform engineering with product development

Desirable

• Streamline, automate, and optimize Kard’s internal developer platform to make building, deploying, and operating software fast, seamless, and reliable.
• You will focus on creating scalable infrastructure, improving developer experience, and reducing operational friction, ensuring engineers at Kard can deliver value quickly and with confidence
• This role is not just about building—it’s about making smart choices. You will evaluate build vs. buy trade-offs, leveraging automation, open-source tools, and third-party services to create cost-effective, user-friendly solutions.
• Your decisions will directly impact developer efficiency, infrastructure scalability, and Kard’s ability to innovate
• Your work will span AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD automation, and developer productivity tooling, keeping Kard’s infrastructure scalable, efficient, and secure.
• You will collaborate with engineering teams to improve observability, compliance, cost management, incident response, and deployment workflows, eliminating bottlenecks and reducing cognitive load.
• You will advocate for platform usability and developer ergonomics, ensuring Kard’s internal infrastructure accelerates, rather than hinders, product innovation
• Success in this role means outcomes over output. You will align platform decisions with business needs, ensuring Kard remains lean, efficient, and adaptable.
• Whether improving our multi-account AWS architecture, streamlining deployments, or enhancing security automation, your work will have a lasting impact on how Kard engineers build and deliver value
• Build and maintain developer experience platforms that make deployment, operations, and observability easy and reliable
• Architect and evolve Kard’s multi-account (”cell”) AWS infrastructure, ensuring it is secure, cost-efficient, and adaptable while improving usability through automation and self-service tooling
• Evaluate build vs. buy for internal platform needs, leveraging open-source tools and third-party automation to reduce engineering burden
• Develop and enforce standards, automation, and guardrails for infrastructure as code (Terraform), CI/CD, cost management, security, and compliance
• Improve incident management, observability, and system resilience, ensuring fast recovery and high availability
• Work closely with engineers across the company to reduce cognitive load, improve developer workflows, and accelerate product delivery
• Drive the evolution of Kard’s cell-based multi-account architecture, making it more usable, flexible, and efficient
• Enhance and automate feature flag management, database migrations, smoke testing, and operational tooling
• Lead and participate in technical decision-making, integrating developer experience, scalability, and business impact
• Mentor engineers and advocate for best practices in operational excellence, security, and platform engineering