Senior Platform Engineer

Spreetail • Arizona, TX

23h • Remote

About The Position

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.
• This position requires being a part of the on-call rotation, which is currently around 1 out of every 4 weeks.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed