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Staff Platform Engineer in Remote

  • Prefect
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Worldwide

Responsibilities

  • Establish service-quality strategies by defining service-level indicators and error budgets.
  • Operate, optimize, and improve large-scale production systems through maintainable code, reliability practices, on-call participation, and incident response.
  • Improve customer and internal user experience through performance engineering, observability adoption, and automation.
  • Apply technical judgment to ambiguous problems, prototypes, hardening decisions, and tradeoffs.
  • Raise the team’s technical bar through design feedback, code review, mentoring, and clear written communication.
  • Use AI-powered development tools across planning, implementation, review, testing, and iteration while maintaining independent judgment.

Requirements

  • Experience operating and optimizing large-scale distributed systems in production, including observability and self-healing techniques.
  • Expertise managing production services in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.
  • Experience operating production systems in a high-growth startup environment.
  • Familiarity with declarative production-infrastructure management and modern Infrastructure as Code tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform.

Benefits

  • Remote-first team with a flexible-first culture.
  • Equity stock options.
  • 401(k) with a 5% company match and immediate vesting.
  • Unlimited paid time off.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Generous parental leave.
  • Life insurance and disability benefits.
  • Monthly remote-work stipend.

Salary: $214k - $309k/yr

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