Platform Engineering Lead

As the Platform Engineering Lead at Coder you will lead architectural and technical decisions related to platform engineering and internal DevOps. You unblock uplift and focus on the problems that matter - delivering a cutting-edge developer platform loved by customers.

You will be the founding member of a new team dedicated to platform engineering and internal DevOps. We are looking for a lead who will get hands-on and contribute while also helping to set standards and upgrade existing infrastructure. Coders main software platform is a self-hosted deployable in which Coder providers reference architecture Helm charts Terraform providers and more. You will be directly responsible for helping to mature these artifacts.

Coder also has a number of lightweight external infrastructure and internal development infrastructure which you will help to maintain guide and expand.

Until now Software Engineers have been maintaining and handling all internal DevOps work.

What youll do here

• Drive architecture decisions related to infrastructure and deployments

• Support internal infrastructure for engineering

• Translate product vision into clear technical roadmaps; drive execution endtoend

• Train and uplift engineering and field teams on infrastructure-related work

• Hold a high bar for code quality security and performance; instill best practices

What were looking for

• 7 years in infrastructure and platform engineering with at least 3 years leading teams

• Proven record of shipping software to large enterprise customers

• Experience contributing to or leading open source projects

Deep technical foundation in

• Linux

• Kubernetes & containers

• At least one major public cloud (e.g. AWS GCP or Azure)

• IP networking & HTTP fundamentals

• Infrastructure as Code

Our tech stack

• Backend: Go Postgres GCP Kubernetes gRPC

• Frontend: Typescript React Vite

• IDE Extensions: Typescript Kotlin

• Observability: Prometheus Grafana

• CI/CD: GitHub Actions

• General: GitHub Slack Discord Notion

Bonus tacos if you have

• (Tacos If you need an ice-breaker ask how we say thanks by giving tacos!)

• Significant professional experience with our tech stack

• Prior work on developer tooling

• Public open source contributions

• You still carve out time to code either at work or on passion projects

About Coder

Coder is an AI software development company leading the future of autonomous coding. We empower teams to build software faster more securely and at scale through the collaboration of AI coding agents and human developers. Our mission is to make agentic AI a safe trusted and integral part of every software development lifecycle.

Our self-hosted AI Development Environment is the foundation for deploying agentic AI in the enterprise. It provides a secure standardized and governed workspace to deploy autonomous coding agents alongside human developers accelerating innovation while maintaining control and compliance. Coders isolated policy-driven environments improve productivity cut cloud costs and reduce data risks. Developers transition to AI at their own pace using their own tools. Platform and security teams can govern audit and manage a great developer experience at scale.

Interview process

We believe that the interview process should be transparent consistent and enjoyable. We value your time and hope to complete the interview process in two to four weeks if schedules allow. Through your interviews you will meet a mix of individual contributors managers and senior leaders.

AI use during the interview process

As an AI company Coder embraces the use of AI tools and we want to be transparent about our expectations as you navigate our interview process.

Not permitted: Using AI assistance during conversational interviews.

Permitted: Using AI tooling for take-home assessments. Please flag where and to what extent it was used in your take-home. Your submission will not be penalized for using AI as long as it is done honestly.

Our use of AI in hiring

We use AI tools to help manage our recruitment process efficiently and fairly. Specifically:

• Ashby helps us review inbound applications by surfacing candidates who best match the role requirements weve defined. This tool does not make hiring decisions - it helps our team prioritize which applications to review first.

• Granola takes notes during our interview calls so our team can focus on the conversation with you.

All hiring decisions are made by humans. Our team reviews applications conducts interviews and makes final selections. AI tools assist us but never replace human judgment and these practices are conducted in compliance with applicable data protection AI governance and labor laws. Your data is not used to train AI models.

In accordance with New York City Local Law 144 an independent bias audit has been conducted on Automated Employment Decision Tools; results are available for Ashby.

If youre applying for a role at Coder and have questions about how we use AI in our process or if youd like to request information about the data we collect please contact .

Coder is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and do not discriminate on the basis of race color ancestry religion sex pregnancy gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation national origin age marital status genetic information disability protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

Required Experience:

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