Senior Platform Engineer

Translucent • New York, NY

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

We’re hiring a Senior Platform Engineer focused on supporting and enabling data and AI engineering in New York. You will build and maintain the foundational platform technology that enables our data and agentic AI systems and that form our product. You will build and help maintain infrastructure primarily in GCP and you will partner closely with other platform engineers and product engineers in keeping our core systems fast, correct, secure and well-tested. This is a high-ownership role. You will work directly with a large group of product engineers in enabling our product teams to move fast.

Requirements

• Experience with GCP
• Strong kubernetes experience, preferably using GKE (autopilot & standard), strong understanding of the mechanics of workload scaling in GKE
• Strong experience with relational databases, managing migrations and experience with Mongo.
• Strong Python and golang skills, Typescript supports our frontend application and isn’t as important for this role.
• Strong experience with IaC tooling (OpenTofu) - nice to have Atlantis.
• Strong grounding in the fundamentals of computation, logic, and algorithms.
• 5+ years of post-university industry experience

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience in a heavily regulated domain like finance or healthtech.
• Experience with Vertex (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform)
• Experience building and deploying agentic systems
• Experience with honeycomb.io

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain well-tested applications in Python, Typescript and golang.
• Build and maintain kubernetes (GKE) deployments and workloads with our preferred gitops approach. We use github, ArgoCD and Kargo.
• Manage IaC on GCP.
• Build, help deploy and optimize applications using MongoDB Atlas, PostgresQL and Spanner as backing state stores.
• Document processes and work to optimize LLM-assisted coding workflows, including optimizing code review strategies.
• Partner with product engineers to support rapid feature development.
• Validate software is correct and secure.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior