Platform Engineer
Skills
About the Role
You will design, operate, and improve the infrastructure and deployment systems that run production services. You will automate processes to improve reliability and recovery, own CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code, build monitoring and alerting, manage incidents and on-call processes, maintain release artifacts and runbooks for self-hosted deployments, and contribute backend reliability and deployment work as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor in computer science or related subject or equivalent experience
- At least three years of relevant working experience in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, or cloud
- Hands-on experience operating production systems on AWS
- Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform
- Proficiency in one or more of Go, Python, or shell scripting
- Hands-on experience with debugging, optimizing code, and automation
- Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty or equivalents
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to write operational and deployment documentation
- Ability to manage multiple projects in a deadline-driven environment and collaborate with a distributed team
Responsibilities
- Develop and integrate solutions with a bias for automation to improve and maintain reliability across the production estate and make recovery easier
- Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code to ensure consistent, high-quality deployments
- Design and track metrics for uptime and performance and maintain visibility through dashboards and alerting
- Own the incident management process and continuously improve monitoring, on-call hygiene, and post-incident follow-ups
- Own release engineering for customer self-hosted deployments including packaged deployment artifacts, versioning, upgrade guides, and troubleshooting runbooks
- Ensure consistent deployments and reliable connectivity of devices by working closely with other teams
- Drive secure-by-default infrastructure practices including IAM least privilege, secrets management, patching, and vulnerability scanning integration
- Maintain lightweight security and compliance evidence such as architecture diagrams, control descriptions, and runbooks and support customer security questionnaires
- Contribute to backend work focused on reliability, deployments, and infrastructure-adjacent improvements (up to ~30%)
Benefits
- Hacker residency at the lab in Hong Kong
- Grants of up to 100000 USD worth of AUKI tokens for successful applicants
- Access to hardware (robots, smart glasses, and other equipment) at the hacker house in Hong Kong