Platforms Engineer

Storyblocks•Arlington, VA

1d•$122,000 - $129,200•Remote

About The Position

The Platforms team builds the foundation every other engineer at Storyblocks depends on: the pipelines that ship their code, the tooling that tells them when something breaks, and the environments they develop in. When that foundation is solid, the whole engineering org moves faster and sleeps better. This isn't a back-office infrastructure role. The work you do here shapes the daily experience of every engineer at the company. We're hiring a Platforms Engineer we're genuinely excited to invest in and grow. Maybe you've been writing application code and kept getting pulled toward the pipelines, the deploys, and the "why is this broken in prod" problems. Maybe you come from a cloud or ops background and want to own systems end to end instead of just closing tickets. Either way, if you're comfortable in AWS, you care about the experience of the engineers around you, and you want more ownership than your current role gives you, this is built for you. You'll work across CI/CD, observability, infrastructure-as-code, and local development environments in a fast-moving microservices world where resilience and scalability really matter. We'll start you on well-scoped, real problems and hand you bigger, higher-autonomy projects as fast as you can take them. This is a team that treats developer experience as a product, not an afterthought. We care a lot about learning here. The platform space moves fast, and the tools you'll master in a year probably include a few that aren't on this page yet. We want someone who stays curious, enjoys picking up new skills, and shares what they learn with the team. We also expect you to use AI to supercharge your work, not to replace your judgment. Our best engineers lean on AI to move faster and go deeper while owning the decisions and the quality of what ships.

Requirements

Comfortable working in AWS and know your way around its core services.
Used observability or monitoring tools (like Datadog) to understand what your systems are doing.
Handy with at least one scripting or programming language.
Worked with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform, or you're eager to.
Helped run and scale infrastructure, and you're excited to grow into bigger, higher-traffic systems.
Built or maintained CI/CD pipelines.
Care about doing right by the engineers who depend on your work, and you keep developer experience front of mind.
Can explain a gnarly platform concept to someone who doesn't live in infrastructure all day.
Think through trade-offs and can walk someone through your reasoning.
Take ownership of your work, and you're ready to grow into leading bigger, more complex projects.
Curious and love to learn.
Pick up new tools and skills on your own, and you use AI to sharpen and speed up your work.
Storyblocks' engineering and company values resonate with you.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Helm and Kubernetes (or other container orchestration), and tools like ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, and Istio.
Hands-on with CircleCI, GitHub Actions, or similar CI/CD platforms.
Experience with Datadog or another APM/observability tool.
Working knowledge of databases (relational or NoSQL): provisioning, tuning, or operating them.
Experience designing and deploying microservices.
General knowledge of security, release engineering, or QA.

Responsibilities

Build, operate, and scale AWS infrastructure that supports our microservices platform.
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines that make shipping fast, reliable, and safe.
Build reusable, templated configuration (Helm charts, CircleCI orbs) so teams get consistent, standardized deployments and pipelines instead of reinventing them.
Manage infrastructure through code, treating infra changes with the same rigor as application code.
Improve observability and monitoring so teams can understand and debug their systems in production.
Partner with product engineering teams, translating platform concepts into practical guidance and cutting friction from their day-to-day work.
Make and document thoughtful technical trade-offs, and grow into leading complex platform projects end to end.

Benefits

Competitive and fair compensation
401(k) retirement plan with company match (Traditional and Roth)
Company-paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employee and dependents
Paid parental leave (up to 16 weeks for birthing parents, 4 weeks for non-birthing parents, up to 12 weeks for adoption/surrogacy/foster placement)
Unlimited vacation
Two company-wide week breaks in July and December
Fully remote work environment
Company and team events
Company-sponsored mentorship and growth
Leadership coach available to all employees
Financial wellness program
Subscription service for restaurant deliveries with $0 delivery fee
Recognition and rewards program
Casual work environment