Senior Platform Engineer

As a Senior Platform Engineer at Mux, you will be responsible for contributing to the design and operation of the infrastructure that powers Mux's high traffic, distributed platforms. You will work cross-functionally to ensure scalability, reliability, and ease of use for our services. This role requires a strong background in building internal tooling, operating services, and a passion for Kubernetes, automation, and continuous learning. You will have the opportunity to work with a tight-knit team of experienced professionals and collaborate with engineering teams to improve internal standards, tooling, and processes.

• Participate in the design and deployment of major shared infrastructure components
• Build tooling and automation to support and increase the accessibility of platform services
• Debug production issues across applications and services
• Partner with engineering teams to build new features at scale and improve internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Champion best practices for availability, reliability, capacity planning, incident management, and production readiness
• Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization
• Build and scale business-critical Kubernetes infrastructure
• Utilize engineering fundamentals such as TCP/UDP, HTTP, TLS, DNS, and Linux system administration
• Mature platforms through abstraction, automation, and iteration
• Maintain healthy, respectful relationships within the team and across organizations
• Build and evolve CI/CD tools and pipelines
• Implement and utilize infrastructure observability and monitoring tools
• Have experience with Hashicorp Vault and Secrets Management
• Have experience with video technology, event streaming platforms, distributed databases, and ingress and Service Meshes (nice to have)

• Experience building and scaling business-critical Kubernetes infrastructure through all phases of the cluster lifecycle
• Strong software engineering skills (experience with Go or multiple languages a bonus)
• Knowledge of engineering fundamentals such as TCP/UDP, HTTP, TLS, DNS, and Linux system administration
• Ability to mature platforms through abstraction, automation, and iteration to create a seamless user experience for development teams
• Maintaining healthy, respectful relationships within the team and across organizations
• Building and evolving CI/CD tools and pipelines (Bazel, Terraform on AWS and/or GCP, Argo CD/Workflows/Rollouts)
• Implementing and utilizing infrastructure observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, OpenTelemetry)
• Hashicorp Vault and Secrets Management experience
• Nice to have: Video technology experience (ingest, live-streaming, RTMP routing, content delivery, global networking)
• Nice to have: Event streaming platforms or data pipelines (Apache Kafka)
• Nice to have: Distributed databases (CockroachDB, ClickHouse)
• Nice to have: Experience with ingress and Service Meshes (Envoy, Cilium or similar)

• Merit increases
• Equity
• Home office stipends
• Paid holidays
• Unlimited PTO
• Medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability benefits, and life insurance
• Flexible PTO with 2-week minimum + 11 company holidays
• Weekly no-meeting days + quarterly focus weeks
• Healthy work-life balance encouraged
• Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance (99% employee and 60% dependent premium coverage)
• Fertility benefits
• Flexible spending accounts for healthcare, dependent care, and commuter benefits
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Group life insurance
• Critical illness & accident insurance
• Travel accident insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Medical support concierge service
• 401(k)
• Paid parental leave
• Investment in career growth and training
• Continued education stipend
• Thought leadership and peer recognition program
• Reimbursements for headphones, cell phones, device upgrades, and SVoD services of Mux customers
• Lunch reimbursement program