Production Engineer

Placer.aiAustin, TX
$190,000 - $210,000Hybrid

About The Position

We're looking for a Production Engineer to own the infrastructure behind one of the world's largest location analytics platforms - from CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments to developer tooling and observability. This is a hands-on, end-to-end ownership role at the intersection of scale, reliability, and engineering velocity.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in a Production Engineering, SRE, or Platform Engineering role at a SaaS product company
  • 3+ years of hands-on Kubernetes in production - not just deployment, but operating and scaling it
  • 2+ years with IaC tools - Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent at real scale
  • Experience managing production databases and queues - PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, or similar
  • Strong monitoring and alerting fundamentals - you build the systems that catch problems before users do

Nice To Haves

  • GCP experience - this is our primary cloud
  • CKA certification or deep Kubernetes ecosystem knowledge - CNIs, service meshes, operators, ingresses
  • Experience with RabbitMQ or Kafka at scale
  • Familiarity with GitOps workflows - ArgoCD or equivalent

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve Placer's GCP infrastructure end-to-end - multi-cluster GKE, Terraform via Atlantis, ArgoCD GitOps
  • Drive CI/CD pipeline reliability and developer tooling - reduce friction, increase release velocity
  • Manage production and development environments across multiple workloads with high availability requirements
  • Build and maintain observability systems - dashboards, alerting, and incident response that keep the team ahead of failures
  • Identify and resolve performance, scalability, and reliability bottlenecks before they become incidents
  • Collaborate directly with engineering teams to shape infrastructure decisions from design through deployment
  • Introduce new tools, standards, and frameworks - you define the approach, not just execute it

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Excellent benefits
  • medical, dental and vision coverage
  • flexible time off
  • 401K
  • equity awards
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