[Hiring] Staff Platform Engineer @Redox

Role Description

Redox is looking for a Staff Platform Engineer who is a highly capable, hands-on contributor. You’ll pick up an ambiguous lane of work, scope it, prototype and experiment, and then carry it all the way to production-ready code. You’ll bring deep cloud and Kubernetes experience and sound judgment, and you’ll work with the team to shape and align on where the platform goes next.

• Own an ambiguous lane of platform work end to end: scope it, prototype and experiment, then turn what works into production-ready code.
• Build the foundations that let AI agents safely take part in engineering and operations: where they run, how they’re permissioned, and how their actions are observed and audited.
• Keep security, stability, and scale as the baseline as traffic grows and agents gain autonomy, partnering with InfoSec to harden the platform and reduce single points of failure.
• Simplify the platform over time: consolidate tools, vendors, and patterns so humans and agents can do the right thing because it’s the easy thing.
• Automate recurring upkeep wherever practical, so necessary maintenance takes less human effort.
• Help make platform and AI costs understandable to the people making commercial, operational, and technical decisions.
• Co-create the platform’s direction with the team and our platform architect: bring informed opinions, calibrate with others, and align your work to where we’re headed.
• Contribute hands-on across the platform, including infrastructure, CI/CD, container orchestration, and observability. This is an IC role.
• Participate in on-call and own the systems you build, including production incidents.
• Share knowledge with a highly senior team of peers through pairing, design reviews, and documentation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cloud-native infrastructure or platform engineering roles, with demonstrable progression in technical scope and impact.
• Deep, hands-on AWS experience running production systems, including networking, IAM, and managed services.
• Production Kubernetes expertise, including cluster lifecycle, upgrades, node management, and autoscaling. You’ve operated it, not just deployed it.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code practice (Terraform/HCL, Helm) and experience with GitOps-style delivery.
• A track record of automating operational work, with the testing and rollback safety that makes speed possible.
• A security-minded approach to access, secrets, and configuration, ideally in a regulated environment.
• High output on ambiguous problems: you’ve taken loosely defined work from prototype to production, and you know when an experiment is ready to harden.
• Sound judgment and strong written communication: you write clear proposals with tradeoffs, calibrate with peers, and commit once a direction is set.

Requirements

• Nice to have in your background:
• Experience in a fully remote, growth-stage, or regulated-industry company (HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2).
• Building or operating AI agents in production, or applying AI to infrastructure and operations work.
• Observability depth: OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, or managed observability platforms.
• Networking depth: site-to-site VPNs, IPsec, or high-throughput messaging systems.
• Developer enablement work: you’ve thought about the internal developer experience, not just the ops side.
• Cost visibility or FinOps experience in cloud environments.

Benefits

• 100% remote first culture (must be based in the US).
• Unlimited Flexible Time Off.
• 15+ Observed Holidays.
• Rest & R^Charge days (guaranteed a 3-day weekend each month).
• R^Charge (6 weeks paid sabbatical + stipend).
• 401k match 50% for up to 8% on Day 1.
• Medical/Dental/Vision Benefits on Day 1.
• HSA & FSA, Life, Disability, Medical Travel & Employee Assistance Program.
• Paid Parental Leave (16 weeks).
• Productivity Stipend & Wellness Fund.
• Redox Issued MacBook.
• Virtual and/or in-person Team & Company Events.
• Stock Options.
• Employee Referral Bonus Program.