Platform Engineering Lead

Rumble • Washington, DC

11h • $110,000 - $155,000

About The Position

Rumble is a high-growth video platform and cloud services provider that is creating an independent infrastructure. Our mission is to restore the internet to its roots by making it free and open once again.
Platform Engineering Lead builds and operates Rumble’s Internal Developer Platform (IDP) as an internal product that abstracts infrastructure complexity, standardizes golden paths,
and accelerates developer velocity while supporting both DevOps and SRE practices

Requirements

• Strong demonstrable experience building internal platforms or developer-experience tools at scale.
• Strong background in Kubernetes, GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, and self-service portals.
• Product-management mindset (roadmap ownership, customer feedback loops).
• Experience integrating AI tools into engineering workflows while preserving human oversight.
• Familiarity with secure development hygiene (NIST 800-218).
• Cloud-native and automation-first engineering culture.
• Strong leadership

Responsibilities

• Lead the Platform Engineering Team.
• Design, deliver, and continuously evolve the self-service IDP: CI/CD golden paths, IaC templates (Terraform/Ansible), Kubernetes abstractions, pre-configured environments, monitoring integrations, code repository environment and cloud-resource abstractions for Rumble Cloud.
• Treat the IDP as a product: run user interviews with Development and Production Ops squads, maintain a public roadmap, and measure success by developer velocity metrics (e.g., deployment frequency, lead time).
• Embed secure development hygiene, AI-augmented workflows (with mandatory Human-in-theLoop), and Behavior-Driven Development practices into the platform tools.
• Collaborate with the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team so the IDP itself is reliable in production (shared ownership model: Platform owns design & evolution; Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) owns runtime reliability).
• Eliminate toil and duplication across products so cross-functional squads can self-serve deployments, scaling, and observability without reinventing infrastructure.
• Apply Theory of Constraints (TOC) to platform adoption bottlenecks and drive quarterly governance reviews with the Platform Steering Committee.

Benefits

• We are making a significant financial impact for our video creator community; we’re proud of their success stories
• We enjoy challenging the status quo and going head-to-head against Big Tech
• We aren’t afraid to try new things; we act fast and want to win
• We pay competitive salaries and provide great benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees