Senior Platform Engineer

Verve

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Verve is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their DevOps team and take meaningful ownership of their growing infrastructure. This position is full-time with the option of working on-site from their NYC headquarters. The role involves owning and optimizing Kubernetes clusters, leading infrastructure provisioning, architecting CI/CD pipelines, and driving platform reliability. The engineer will also define observability standards, lead during incidents, and mentor other engineers. Verve is a technology company focused on creating a more efficient and privacy-focused way to buy and monetize advertising, empowering brands and agencies to connect moments of discovery and drive measurable outcomes across screens.

Requirements

7+ years of relevant platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering experience
Deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes in production environments (GKE)
Strong Terraform skills — module authoring and IaC architecture, not just usage
Experience with GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipeline design at scale
Solid understanding of cloud networking, IAM, and security across GCP
Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex, ambiguous problems
Experience mentoring engineers and influencing platform culture

Responsibilities

Own and optimize Kubernetes clusters (GKE) at scale, including networking, autoscaling, and cost efficiency
Lead the design and implementation of infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), establishing reusable patterns and enforcing standards across teams
Architect, implement, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) with a focus on reliability, security, and developer experience
Design and maintain Helm charts for applications and services across multiple environments
Drive platform reliability — owning scalability, availability, and disaster recovery strategy (load balancing, auto-scaling, multi-region resilience)
Define and implement observability standards across metrics, logging, and tracing (Grafana, New Relic, OpenTelemetry)
Serve as a technical lead during incidents on primary revenue-generating applications, owning resolution and contributing to post-mortems
Mentor engineers across the team and act as a trusted advisor to development teams on infrastructure best practices, security standards, and platform adoption
Contribute to the team’s on-call rotation with a proactive, systems-thinking approach