[Hiring] Platform Engineer @Phaidra

Role Description

You will help build and operate the Azure platform used by Phaidra’s product and AI engineering teams. You will own scoped platform components from implementation through production operation, working within an established architecture and improving it through what you learn.

This role contributes directly to Phaidra’s next phase of growth. Expanding our platform into Azure requires reusable infrastructure, dependable deployment workflows, and developer-facing automation rather than manual cloud work. The systems you build will make it possible for other engineers to deploy and operate software safely without needing to become Azure specialists.

What You’ll Work On

• Azure foundations
  • Implement and maintain Azure infrastructure for networking, identity, secrets, storage, policy, monitoring, and AKS.
  • Build reusable Terraform and configuration components using team standards.
  • Test changes and document supported usage, failure modes, and rollback procedures.
• Platform software and delivery
  • Extend golden paths, service templates, and self-service environment workflows for Azure.
  • Extend Phaidra’s existing GitLab CI, ArgoCD, and Crossplane workflows to provision and deploy services on Azure.
  • Contribute to Python or Go libraries, CLIs, APIs, and automation that reduce manual platform work.
• Reliability and operations
  • Add metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts, and runbooks to the systems you touch.
  • Participate in the Platform on-call rotation with support from experienced engineers.
  • Diagnose incidents, fix recurring problems, and complete follow-up work.
• Security defaults
  • Apply established controls for identity, secrets, network isolation, image provenance, and least privilege.
  • Partner with senior engineers and security when requirements or ownership boundaries are unclear.
• Internal customer feedback
  • Work with product and AI engineers to understand friction in Azure deployment and operations.
  • Turn recurring requests into documented, reusable platform capabilities.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, or a similar role.
• Hands-on experience deploying or operating production workloads in Azure.
• Working knowledge of several core Azure areas: AKS, Entra ID, virtual networks, private endpoints, Key Vault, managed identities, Azure Policy, storage, or Azure Monitor.
• Experience with Terraform or another infrastructure-as-code tool.
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes, including deploying and debugging workloads.
• Programming ability in Python, Go, or another high-level language.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and Git-based delivery workflows.
• Ability to own scoped work, ask precise questions, and communicate clearly in a remote team.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience with GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Atlantis, Kapitan, Helm, or Kustomize.
• Exposure to another major cloud and an interest in multi-cloud platform design.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or Azure Monitor.
• Familiarity with cloud networking, identity, or security fundamentals.
• Exposure to AI/ML infrastructure or data-intensive systems.
• Contributions to internal developer platforms, service templates, or developer tooling.

Nice-to-haves

• Exposure to Azure Arc, hybrid networking, or private customer deployments.
• Contributions to Kubernetes operators or custom controllers.
• Familiarity with cloud cost analysis or FinOps practices.

Benefits

• Fast-paced, team-oriented environment where your work directly shapes the company’s direction.
• We are a 100% remote company.
• Competitive compensation & meaningful equity.
• Outsized responsibilities & professional development.
• Training is foundational; functional, customer immersion, and development training.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (exact benefits vary by region).
• Unlimited paid time off, with a required minimum of 20 days per year.
• Paid parental leave (exact benefits vary by region).
• Flexible stipends to support your workspace, well-being, and continued professional development.
• Company MacBook.