Platform Engineer

York and North Yorkshire Source: WhatJobs
£85,000–£120,000
  • As a Platform Engineer on the Compute team, you’ll improve how engineers build and run services, helping ensure our compute platform is reliable at scale for our learners and fellow Duo engineers
  • The Compute team builds and operates the core compute platform that powers our applications. We build paved roads (self-service platform primitives, templates, and tooling) and we operate them so product engineers can focus on shipping features with confidence
  • Build and operate core compute primitives that power production workloads based on Kubernetes, across different regions and cloud providers
  • Improve the delivery pipeline from commit to production by evolving our GitOps and deployment patterns, making rollouts safer and faster
  • Raise the operational bar: define SLOs, build dashboards/alerts, write runbooks, and participate in on-call/incident response to keep the platform dependable
  • Enable effective self-service by turning platform capabilities into reusable abstractions

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision for employees as well as eligible partners and dependents
  • Mental health benefits such as therapy sessions and coaching to support you to be your best self
  • Fertility benefits to support your family planning journey
  • Fully paid parental and adoption leave
  • Fully paid subscription to Care.com and paid backup days for dependents and your fur family
  • 401(k) with generous match and immediate vesting
  • 20 days of paid time off, with two additional weeks off for winter break
  • First-time home buyer bonus (in Pittsburgh)
  • Competitive salaries and equity
  • Yearly stipend for professional development
  • Transportation reimbursement for however you get to work
  • Lunch prepared daily by our in-house chefs
  • Annual international retreat for all full-time employees
  • Monthly events celebrating our team and their amazing work
  • On-site gym and massages
  • Game room for taking brain breaks

Functional knowledge of Linux system administration and automationExperience with distributed systems fundamentals (networking, service-to-service communication, failure modes, caching/storage concepts)Experience with one or more CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Argo CD, GitHub Actions) and infrastructure management tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)Experience working on production systems (through industry roles, internships, or substantial open-source work)Clear written and verbal communication skills—comfortable writing docs/runbooks and collaborating across teamsStrong problem-solving skills and experience delivering and shipping pragmatic solutions in production environmentsA Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experienceExperience managing a production infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, or AzureExposure to multi-cluster or multi-region architectures and the operational patterns that make them reliableExperience with service mesh / zero-trust networking patterns (e.g., Istio mTLS, traffic management, authorization policies)

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