Sr Software Development Engineer Platform Engineering

Job Overview

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering Team responsible for building and maintaining the foundational infrastructure tools and workflows that enable seamless software development and delivery at PitchBook. This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who is passionate about developer enablement automation and scalable cloud platforms.

As a Senior Platform Engineer you will design build and enhance our internal platforms CI/CD pipelines Kubernetes infrastructure and developer tooling. You will work closely with developers SREs and security teams to create selfservice solutions that empower product teams to deploy manage and scale their services efficiently.

This is a highimpact role where you will contribute to the vision architecture and strategy of our platform while ensuring reliability security and costefficiency. If you thrive in solving complex engineering challenges automating infrastructure and improving developer workflows we want to hear from you!

Team Overview

Platform Engineering is a critical function of Engineering Operations and consists of all facets of building a platform of shared & managed services that are used by our Product Teams to deliver software fast repeatably autonomously and without friction or handoffs.

Outline of Duties and Responsibilities

• Own engineering operations strategies practices and standards across the organization working closely with engineering leadership.

• Evangelize operational excellence within Pitchbook engineering teams integrating product and engineering with operations seamlessly through structure collaboration enablement and automation.

• Devise solutions that optimize and accelerate the SDLC while maintaining exceptional quality and security repeatedly applied through automation.

• Help development teams tomanage infrastructure including cloud managed services base images containerization strategy and infrastructure automation GitOps cloud procurement and governance.

• Manage developer experience DevEx including developer productivity SDLC and operational metrics automated CI/CDpipelines value stream management and tracking tool selection and integration.

• Describe technical context inintuitive ways for different audiences adapting communication from highly technical deep dives with engineers tonontechnical dialogue with executive stakeholders.

• Learn constantly including inavailable managed services (PaaS/SaaS/IaaS) libraries frameworks and platforms (commercial and open source) pros/cons and cost/benefit tradeoffs.

• Follows the companys application ofAgile Lean and principles offast flow toengineering department efficiency and productivity and owns operations role inprocess automation toachieve fluidity.

Experience Skills and Qualifications

• Extensive experience inDocker Kubernetes Linux network CDN protocols.

• Solid experience inDevOps InfrastructureasCode IaC and GitOps configuration &CI/CDpipelines including Flux Terraform Gitlab CI/GitHub Actions orsimilar tools.

• Solid understanding ofprogramming best practices and principles common software architectures and methods.

• Extensive experience designing and managing cloudbased solutions infrastructure management including web services messaging solutions (Kafka Pub/Sub) databases (e.g. PostgreSQL MSSQLServer) and caching solutions.

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal. You can effectively read the situation and adjust your communication style tothe audience.

• Experience with cloud providers: GCP AWS.

Working Conditions

The job conditions for this position are in a standard office setting. Employees in this position use PC and phone on an ongoing basis throughout the day. Limited corporate travel may be to remote offices or other business meetings and events.