[Hiring] Staff Platform Engineer @Honor

Role Description

We are looking for a seasoned platform engineer with experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable distributed systems & infrastructure. The platform engineering team builds and manages the infrastructure & core services that powers Honor’s Care Platform. Our charter is focused on providing foundational building blocks to enable the entire engineering organization to deliver reliably and efficiently. We also own build and deployment pipelines of our services, maintenance of various environments and their supporting infrastructure and serve as consultants to build the right abstractions for patterns of problems. This is a highly technical, hands-on role that requires a wide and deep experience in managing applications and infrastructure across cloud services. It requires deep practical knowledge of cloud platforms, advanced software design patterns & architecture, operations and automation, and containerization technologies like Kubernetes. The ideal candidate is driven by providing business value, is comfortable working with systems at varying levels of maturity, and appreciates making nuanced tradeoffs. You will be joining a small team of highly-skilled, enthusiastic, and passionate engineers with an opportunity to create an outsized impact in contributing to the future evolution of Honor’s Care Platform.

Qualifications

• At least 6 years of professional experience in a platform engineering team within a product-centric company.
• 5+ years in designing and implementing foundational patterns and libraries for Python applications, across a range of technologies from API services to event processing.
• 3+ years experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as CDK (preferred), Terraform and Ansible.
• 3+ years experience working alongside a production system running on Kubernetes.
• 3+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering, preferably with AWS.
• 3+ years experience in developing and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, ArgoCD.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g., Bash, Python, Go) and software engineering concepts.
• Experience with Helm including managing helm charts and creating custom charts from existing ones or building new.
• Experience with networking security and secret-management tools (e.g. Vault, AWS SSM).
• Experience automating the lifecycle management of code from development through production, including code promotion and configuration management.
• Proficient in instrumenting observability through tools such as CloudWatch and DataDog to monitor and optimize application performance across multiple environments.
• Passion for delivering turn-key developer experience for local development.
• Keen interest in developing talent through mentorship.
• Strong written and verbal communication, tailored to a variety of audiences.
• A strategic thinker with a product-first approach and customer obsession.

Requirements

• Some, or all, of these are true:
• You have experience working with an RPC architecture.
• You work at or have worked at a technology startup and are familiar with the challenges of evolving platform maturity.
• You have firsthand experience navigating multiple distributed architecture patterns.
• Knowledge of infrastructure security review and compliance frameworks.

Benefits

• Remote-first work model lets you work from anywhere in the U.S. and occasionally pop into a satellite office.
• Competitive salary.
• Equity in the company.
• Comprehensive medical, mental health, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• Employer-matched 401(k).
• Flexible PTO (manager approval).
• Diverse environment, with women making up more than half of the company and half of the management team.
• Monthly stipend to offset home office expenses.