[Hiring] Senior Platform Engineer @Phaidra

Role Description

You will lead the design and implementation of the systems required to make Phaidra’s platform capabilities available on Azure. You will turn Phaidra’s broader platform strategy into working Azure foundations, supported deployment workflows, Kubernetes capabilities, observability, and security defaults without creating a separate platform for each cloud.

This role is important to Phaidra’s next phase of growth. As our products reach a broader set of customers and deployment environments, the platform must support Azure with the same reliability and engineering leverage as our existing cloud systems. The architecture and interfaces you establish will shape how multiple product and AI teams build and operate software.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, or software engineering with an infrastructure focus.
• Strong production experience with Azure, including AKS, Entra ID, Azure networking and private endpoints, Azure Policy, Key Vault, managed identities, and Azure Monitor or equivalent observability integrations.
• Production Kubernetes experience, including workload identity, networking, storage, autoscaling, upgrades, and incident debugging.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform and a configuration or packaging system such as Kapitan, Helm, or Kustomize.
• Experience building or operating internal platform capabilities such as golden paths, service templates, self-service environments, platform APIs, or developer tooling.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, or another high-level language; comfortable building maintainable libraries, services, CLIs, or controllers.
• Experience with GitOps and CI/CD in production.
• Demonstrated ownership of ambiguous technical initiatives spanning multiple teams.

Requirements

• Design and operate production Azure environments, including subscriptions and management groups, networking, private connectivity, identity, policy, DNS, storage, and managed Kubernetes.
• Build reusable platform components for AKS and supporting Azure services.
• Establish secure, observable, cost-aware defaults that product teams can consume without cloud-specific expertise.
• Extend golden paths, service templates, and self-service workflows to Azure.
• Extend Phaidra’s existing Terraform, Kapitan, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, and Crossplane workflows to provision and deploy services on Azure.
• Define SLIs, SLOs, dashboards, alerts, backup, recovery, and capacity practices for Azure-hosted services.
• Partner with security on identity, secrets, policy, network isolation, supply-chain controls, and compliance evidence.
• Lead the design and implementation of multi-team initiatives that advance Phaidra’s broader platform strategy.

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.