Platform Engineer

Cube Dev • San Francisco, CA

12h • Remote

About The Position

At Cube, we’re redefining how organizations deliver, consume, and automate data and analytics across teams, tools, and AI agents.Our mission is to enable Agentic Analytics — where AI agents work alongside humans on a shared semantic foundation If you’re fascinated by building core data and AI infrastructure — the kind that powers analytics at the world’s most advanced technology companies — but want the agility and ownership of a startup, Cube is where you’ll thrive. With 19,000+ GitHub stars and 13,000+ community members, Cube is trusted by companies like SecurityScorecard, Webflow, The Linux Foundation, Cloud Academy, and SamCart.Our platform empowers AI agents with a universal semantic foundation — enabling autonomous analytics at scale while maintaining the same consistency, security, and performance across BI tools, spreadsheets, and embedded applications. As a Platform Engineer at Cube , you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the core platform that powers Cube cloud product and supports Cube Core at scale. Your primary focus will be reliability, scalability, performance, and developer productivity across our infrastructure and internal platforms. You will work closely with Core and Platform engineers to ensure Cube runs efficiently in production environments and provides a seamless experience for both internal teams and customers.

Requirements

• Strong experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar).
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, networking, and Linux internals.
• Experience building and operating production systems with high availability and performance requirements.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language used for platform development (Go, Rust, Python, or similar).
• Good communication skills and ability to work effectively in a remote, async environment.
• Fluent English.

Nice To Haves

• Experience operating data-intensive or analytics-heavy platforms.
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems and release automation.
• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, etc.).
• Background in security best practices for cloud platforms.
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure or platform projects.

Responsibilities

• Designing and maintaining cloud-native infrastructure for a globally distributed analytics platform.
• Building internal platform tooling to improve developer velocity, observability, and deployment safety.
• Scaling multi-tenant systems that serve large volumes of analytical queries with strict latency requirements.
• Improving reliability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery for Cube cloud platform.
• Operating Kubernetes-based environments and evolving our deployment and release pipelines.
• Implementing monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices for a high-availability system.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed