Staff Platform Engineer, Honor

• We are looking for a seasoned Platform Engineer with experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable distributed systems & infrastructure
• This is a highly technical, hands-on role that requires a wide and deep experience in managing applications and infrastructure across cloud services
• It requires deep practical knowledge of cloud platforms, advanced software design patterns & architecture, operations and automation, and containerization technologies like Kubernetes
• The ideal candidate is driven by providing business value, is comfortable working with systems at varying levels of maturity, and appreciates making nuanced tradeoffs
• You thrive in a foundational role supporting diverse, cross-functional teams as your customers, possess exceptional problem solving and analytical skills
• At least 6 years of professional experience in a platform engineering team within a product-centric company
• Have experience automating the lifecycle management of code from development through production, including code promotion and configuration management
• Have experience defining, instrumenting and measuring standards for quality, security, scalability, and availability with a focus on delivering business value
• Have passion for delivering turn-key developer experience for local development
• Keen interest in developing talent through mentorship
• Strong written and verbal communication, tailored to a variety of audiences
• A strategic thinker with a product-first approach and customer obsession

Desirable

• The platform engineering team builds and manages the infrastructure & core services that powers Honor’s Care Platform. Our charter is focused on providing foundational building blocks to enable the entire engineering organization to deliver reliably and efficiently
• We also own build and deployment pipelines of our services, maintenance of various environments and their supporting infrastructure and serve as consultants to build the right abstractions for patterns of problems
• You will be joining a small team of highly-skilled, enthusiastic, and passionate engineers with an opportunity to create an outsized impact in contributing to the future evolution of Honor’s Care Platform
• Design and implement foundational patterns and libraries for Python applications, across a range of technologies from API services to event processing
• Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to ensure reproducible and scalable environment setups
• Design and implement infrastructure for applications hosted on AWS, supporting event-driven systems, containerized services on Kubernetes, and serverless functions
• Develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, ArgoCD
• Instrument observability through tools such as CloudWatch and DataDog to monitor and optimize application performance across multiple environments
• Scale infrastructure to meet increasing demand while managing cost effectively

• We're hiring across the U.S., with an entirely virtual interview and onboarding process