Staff Platform Engineer, SpotOn

• You think in systems: You naturally consider the second and third-order effects of infrastructure decisions, and you design for scale, reliability, and operability from the start
• You lead through technical excellence: Engineers seek out your perspective. You raise the bar in design reviews, shape standards and best practices, and mentor senior engineers to grow into greater impact
• You own outcomes, not just tasks: You identify high-leverage problems, definite the path forward, and drive them to resolution across team boundaries
• You balance depth with breadth: You can go deep on Kubernetes internals or cloud compute primitives, and then zoom out to align stakeholders and communicate tradeoffs clearly
• You want to work with both code and infrastructure: You’re ready to solve the problem at hand, whether it requires writing code on an IDE, running commands on a terminal window, or browsing a cloud dashboard
• You are energized by the AI moment: You see LLMs and AI agents as valuable tools and you have opinions about how to use them responsibly. You are intelligently utilizing AI capabilities to assist with your daily work and look to make this a platform feature well governed and easy to use for all at the company
• 7+ years of experience as a software or platform engineer
• 2+ years as technical leader
• Strong programming skills in an object-oriented or systems language, with experience building infrastructure tooling and automation
• Demonstrated experience operating multi-account multi-cluster Kubernetes-based production environments
• Demonstrated experience leading technical initiatives that span organizational boundaries
• Availability to work during core team hours, 9 am to 12 pm EST
• Ability to participate on-call shifts as required

Desirable

• The Infrastructure Compute team is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to help define and drive the future of our compute platform
• Our mission is to provide a scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient Compute foundation that powers all services across SpotOn
• We own the Kubernetes infrastructure, node lifecycle management, autoscaling systems, and the compute primitives that engineering teams depend on every day
• Now we’re taking on something new
• As AI becomes central to how software gets built and operated, we’re looking to extend the Compute team’s charter to own two new critical components: AI Governance, and platform AI products
• You will help us shape what these look like at SpotOn
• As a Staff Engineer, you'll operate with broad organizational scope
• You'll help drive the technical direction for the Compute team, build alignment across Infrastructure and product engineering, and tackle the highest-complexity problems in our platform
• Partner with platform and product teams to understand compute needs and translate them into durable infrastructure
• Own the performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of our compute layer
• Be a thought leader on responsible and effective use of AI tooling
• Mentor and grow engineers on the Compute team through design reviews, pairing, and direct feedback
• Stay current with emerging technologies and practices in developer experience and platform engineering
• Participate in on-call activities to support the stability of our products
• In your first 90 days you’ve deeply mapped the current state of our Kubernetes platform, identified the highest-leverage improvements, shipped at least one meaningful change, and worked with other engineering leadership to produce a strawman roadmap for our AI journey
• At 6 months you own the technical direction of the Compute platform roadmap, have worked with engineers across the org to validate that roadmap
• At 1 year the platform is measurably improved and more self-service, AI governance practices are embedded in how we work with or ship AI features company-wide, and AI is beginning to meaningfully help the platform team be a force multiplier for SpotOn