[Hiring] Lead Platform Engineer @Stitch Fix

Role Description

Platform Engineering is a family of teams focused on creating and supporting the tools used by all Application and Service Developers at Stitch Fix. We focus on creating low-friction tools and practices to maximize developer happiness—because we believe happy developers write better code. We rely on modern platform practices like Infrastructure-as-Code, Immutable Infrastructure, and Containers, leveraging AWS alongside various Cloud SaaS offerings.

As a Platform Engineer, you will own and operate Stitch Fix’s cloud-native infrastructure and internal developer tooling. You’ll partner with platform and application engineers to reduce friction, harden reliability, and raise the bar on how the organization builds and ships. This role is well-suited for engineers who can take ambiguous, high-stakes infrastructure problems and drive them to completion with minimal oversight.

What you’ll do:

• Own and evolve significant components of our internal platform-as-a-service, from design through production operation.
• Lead execution on complex, ambiguous infrastructure initiatives with minimal oversight, partnering with platform and application engineers along the way.
• Build and maintain tooling that improves developer workflows, deployment reliability, and day-to-day productivity.
• Apply and advance best practices around Infrastructure-as-Code, containerized workloads, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Adopt and leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, while exploring and integrating LLM-powered solutions that automate internal support and operational workflows.
• Drive operational improvements and mentor junior engineers, contributing to both technical execution and team growth.

Our tech stack (things you’ll get exposure to—we don’t expect experience with everything):

• Cloud & Orchestration: AWS, Kubernetes (EKS)
• Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform, Pulumi
• CI/CD: CircleCI
• Languages: Ruby, Golang, Python

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development and infrastructure experience with a track record of significant contributions.
• You have a bachelor's degree in an engineering or computer science field.
• Hands-on, production-level experience with Kubernetes orchestration and AWS.
• The ability to independently scope, break down, and execute complex technical problems with minimal direction.
• Experience operating systems at scale with a deep understanding of failure modes, not just happy-path design.
• Strong developer empathy and a genuine passion for improving the developer experience.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, benefits, and equity.
• Eligible for new hire and ongoing grants of restricted stock units depending on employee and company performance.
• Eligible for medical, dental, vision, and other benefits.
• Support for meaningful career growth.

Compensation and Benefits

This role will receive a competitive salary, benefits, and equity. The salary for US-based employees hired into this role will be aligned with the range below, which includes our three geographic areas. A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, location, and performance.

Salary Range: $113,300 — $189,000 USD