Staff Platform Engineer (Compute Migration)

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 13 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Responsibilities

Were looking for an experienced Staff Platform Engineer specializing in Compute Migration to lead the strategic effort to migrate all of our existing AWS Lambda and ECS-based workloads to our next-generation Kubernetes platform. This is a high-impact role where you will design implement and govern the transition of business-critical event-based workflows ensuring they are optimized for performance cost reliability and security within our K8s environment.

This role requires deep expertise in both current (Lambda ECS) and target (Kubernetes) compute architectures as well as a strong focus on automation and developer experience.

Define the technical roadmap migration patterns and reference architectures for moving Lambda functions and ECS services to our self-managed or managed Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS.
Develop robust scalable and automated solutions for running event-driven serverless-like workflows on Kubernetes potentially utilizing technologies like KEDA or similar cloud-native tools.
Use Terraform/Terragrunt and Helm to build and manage the necessary underlying Kubernetes infrastructure networking and deployment tooling.
Partner closely with engineering teams to understand their unique workload requirements provide consultation on re-platforming best practices and develop standardized tools (e.g. CI/CD pipelines) for easy migration and deployment.
Benchmark migrated services optimize resource requests/limits and implement advanced observability (monitoring logging tracing) solutions to ensure parity or improvement in service SLOs.
Establish best practices guardrails and documentation for running event-based compute on Kubernetes to ensure a smooth transition and sustainable operation post-migration.

Required Qualifications

8 years of experience in Platform Infrastructure or DevOps Engineering roles with significant time spent on large-scale compute migrations.
Expert-level proficiency in Kubernetes (design deployment operations networking security and scaling).
Deep hands-on experience with AWS compute services particularly AWS Lambda and ECS/Fargate and a clear understanding of their operational models and scaling behaviors.
Proven experience migrating production workloads from traditional cloud compute (VMs Lambdas ECS) to Kubernetes.
Strong background in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) specifically Terraform.
Proficiency with containerization technologies (Docker) and modern CI/CD practices.
Excellent communication documentation and technical leadership skills with the ability to influence technical decisions across multiple teams.

Nice-to-Have

Experience with KEDA or similar event-driven scaling solutions on Kubernetes.
Experience working in and/or migrating to monorepo.
Prior experience in a Staff or Principal-level role driving complex multi-quarter technical initiatives.
Experience with Python or Go for tooling development and automation.

Job Responsibilities Were looking for an experienced Staff Platform Engineer specializing in Compute Migration to lead the strategic effort to migrate all of our existing AWS Lambda and ECS-based workloads to our next-generation Kubernetes platform. This is a high-impact role where you will design i...

Job Responsibilities

This role requires deep expertise in both current (Lambda ECS) and target (Kubernetes) compute architectures as well as a strong focus on automation and developer experience.

Define the technical roadmap migration patterns and reference architectures for moving Lambda functions and ECS services to our self-managed or managed Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS.
Develop robust scalable and automated solutions for running event-driven serverless-like workflows on Kubernetes potentially utilizing technologies like KEDA or similar cloud-native tools.
Use Terraform/Terragrunt and Helm to build and manage the necessary underlying Kubernetes infrastructure networking and deployment tooling.
Partner closely with engineering teams to understand their unique workload requirements provide consultation on re-platforming best practices and develop standardized tools (e.g. CI/CD pipelines) for easy migration and deployment.
Benchmark migrated services optimize resource requests/limits and implement advanced observability (monitoring logging tracing) solutions to ensure parity or improvement in service SLOs.
Establish best practices guardrails and documentation for running event-based compute on Kubernetes to ensure a smooth transition and sustainable operation post-migration.

Required Qualifications

8 years of experience in Platform Infrastructure or DevOps Engineering roles with significant time spent on large-scale compute migrations.
Expert-level proficiency in Kubernetes (design deployment operations networking security and scaling).
Deep hands-on experience with AWS compute services particularly AWS Lambda and ECS/Fargate and a clear understanding of their operational models and scaling behaviors.
Proven experience migrating production workloads from traditional cloud compute (VMs Lambdas ECS) to Kubernetes.
Strong background in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) specifically Terraform.
Proficiency with containerization technologies (Docker) and modern CI/CD practices.
Excellent communication documentation and technical leadership skills with the ability to influence technical decisions across multiple teams.

Nice-to-Have

Experience with KEDA or similar event-driven scaling solutions on Kubernetes.
Experience working in and/or migrating to monorepo.
Prior experience in a Staff or Principal-level role driving complex multi-quarter technical initiatives.
Experience with Python or Go for tooling development and automation.