Senior Platform Engineer
About The Position
Spreetail propels brands to increase their ecommerce market share across the globe while improving their operational costs. Learn how we are building one of the fastest-growing ecommerce companies in history: www.spreetail.com. Work Your Way: At Spreetail, we believe in empowering our employees to work in the way that suits them best through our Work Your Way approach. Each team member has the flexibility to choose where they work most effectively each week—whether that's from home, a coffee shop, or the office. While flexibility is key, we also value the power of in-person connection. That’s why we bring our corporate team together in Lincoln each quarter for a week of intentional collaboration, team building, community engagement, and our All-Hands meeting. It’s the best of both worlds: the freedom to work your way, with meaningful opportunities to connect and grow together. Please scroll to the bottom of the job posting to confirm that your state qualifies for the Work Your Way program. Spreetail is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our team! Platform Engineering is redefining how software is built at Spreetail. We enable innovation by providing platforms, guardrails, and AI-powered workflows that allow teams across the company to experiment safely and scale what works. As a member of this team, you’ll contribute to work that doesn’t exist most places.
Requirements
- Production EKS ownership: cluster management, Karpenter, IRSA/Pod Identity, version upgrades — not just deploying to someone else’s cluster.
- Terraform module authoring for team-wide use — not just consuming shared modules, but writing them.
- Full AWS stack: VPC, RDS (IAM auth), ElastiCache, ALB, Route53, ACM, IAM policy design.
- Service mesh operational experience (Istio preferred; Linkerd or Envoy acceptable).
- 5+ years of infrastructure/platform engineering in production cloud environments.
Responsibilities
- Provision complete infrastructure stacks for new product launches. Recent examples include full EKS buildouts (Karpenter, Istio, Crossplane), PostgreSQL/Redis data stores with IAM authentication, CloudFront distributions, and Datadog instrumentation across multiple concurrent initiatives.
- Lead Kubernetes platform evolution. Drive cluster upgrades, add-on lifecycle (Karpenter, Istio, Crossplane), pod identity migration, and namespace management across all environments.
- Design secure, scalable abstractions that hide infrastructure complexity and define the golden paths other teams build on.
- Own authentication infrastructure for internal and external products: Auth0 SSO, Azure AD/Entra, AWS IAM, EKS Pod Identity, and OIDC federation.
- Drive zero-trust infrastructure patterns. Rotating IAM credentials for RDS, per-app Istio authorization policies, and network isolation.
- Enable LLM-powered workflows (Bedrock, Claude Code, and similar) that let engineering teams move faster without sacrificing governance.
Benefits
- Generous vacation policy
- Paid time-off for wedding week
- Paid parental leave
- Support for parents of growing families
- Opportunity to receive special gifts, swag store credit, or donations to a nonprofit of your choice
- Spreetail Spotlight Awards
- Affordable medical, dental and vision plans with coast-to-coast coverage
- Free telehealth
- On-demand mental health resources
- Paid time off to give back and make a social impact
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
