Senior Platform Engineer, Phaidra

• 5+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or SRE
• Production experience operating in at least one major cloud (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
• GitOps fluency with production experience (ArgoCD, Flux, or equivalent), including rollout, drift detection, and recovery patterns
• Experience building or operating key components of an internal developer platform (e.g., self-service deployment/operations workflows, golden paths/service templates, developer portals, platform APIs, or developer tooling)
• Infrastructure-as-code experience: Terraform plus a configuration system (Kapitan, Helm, Kustomize, or similar)
• Software engineering experience in a major high level language. Comfortable writing libraries, CLIs or APIs
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives across multiple teams

Desirable

• You will develop and own key parts of Phaidra's internal developer platform, including golden paths, GitOps workflows, and cloud-native foundations that product and ML teams depend on. The ideal candidate could be described as:
• Pragmatic and product-minded. You treat developer experience, reliability, and operational cost as first-class outcomes
• Comfortable partnering across engineering, SRE, and security in an all-remote setting
• Aligned with our values: Transparency, Collaboration, Operational Excellence, Ownership, & Empathy
• Own the delivery of a scoped set of developer platform capabilities end-to-end (design, implementation, rollout, iteration)
• Build and evolve paved roads (golden paths, service templates, scaffolding) that make it easy to deploy, operate, and scale services
• Run tight feedback loops with engineers across product and ML teams; measure adoption and eliminate common friction points
• Drive improvements to GitOps workflows via ArgoCD and Terraform automation via Atlantis
• Harden CI/CD on GitLab CI, including pipeline performance, safety, and developer ergonomics
• Design progressive delivery patterns (canary, blue/green) as reusable platform primitives
• Contribute to SLI/SLO frameworks and shared observability primitives (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry)
• Participate in the platform team's on-call rotation; reduce toil through automation and better system design
• Improve incident response and postmortem practice so learnings translate into systemic fixes
• Embed secure-by-default patterns into platform templates (secrets, IAM, RBAC, NetworkPolicies)
• Partner with security on compliance posture (SOC 2, ISO 27001) without slowing delivery
• Partner with infrastructure/SRE owners on Kubernetes and core cloud foundations (networking, storage, cluster/platform primitives) where it directly improves developer workflows
• Evolve cloud-native abstractions so the platform remains portable and resilient as our footprint grows (GCP today, with future optionality across providers)
• In your first 30 days..
• You will be immersed in an onboarding program that introduces you to Phaidra and our product
• You will spend time in the Infrastructure and Engineering orgs, learning how teams operate, interact, and approach problems
• You will read the handbook and our onboarding materials to internalize Abstractions, Standards, Baselines, and Archetypes
• You will set up your development environment and complete an onboarding exercise
• You will learn team standards, release processes, and how we use GitOps and Kapitan
• You will shadow the platform on-call rotation
• By your first 60 days..
• You will have a solid understanding of Phaidra's platform and how engineering and research teams consume it
• You will have met with team members across Phaidra and started building collaborative relationships
• You will have completed the onboarding exercise and shipped a first scoped platform improvement (golden path, GitOps change, or self-service tool)
• By your first 90 days..
• You will be fully integrated into the team and collaborating effectively across the company
• You will have participated in the on-call rotation and contributed improvements to reliability and operational practices
• You will be comfortable with our tooling and drive a cross-team platform initiative with measurable developer impact

• All of our interviews are held via Google Meet, and an active camera connection is required
• Meeting with Operations (30 minutes): The purpose of this interview is to meet you, learn more about your background, discuss what you are looking for in a new position and cover formalities around your application
• Hiring Manager interview (30 minutes): This is an introduction call with the hiring manager so that the candidate and the hiring manager can get to know each other better. It will mainly focus on your previous experience and technical background. This meeting is also meant to enable you to ask any questions about the team & role
• Technical Interview (60 minutes): This technical interview will involve candidate designing a developer-facing platform capability end to end
• Culture fit interview with Phaidra’s co-founders (30 minutes): This interview focuses on alignment with Phaidra’s values and the mutual cultural fit