Staff Platform Engineer (Cloud) (Match Group Americas LLC, West Hollywood, CA)

Match Group • Los Angeles, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Match Group Americas LLC is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to design, implement, support, and improve infrastructure systems and development lifecycle processes. The role covers AWS and other cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD platforms, and third-party solutions. The engineer will help maintain reliable, observable, scalable, and performant systems, support engineering teams with infrastructure troubleshooting, and collaborate across the organization on delivery, security, and cost-effectiveness.

The position is based in West Hollywood, California. Telecommuting may be permitted; when not telecommuting, the employee must report to 8833 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, California 90069. The listed annual salary range is $160,513–$192,835. Base pay may vary based on the scope and responsibilities of the position, work experience, education and training, job-related skills, internal peer equity, and market and business considerations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, plus 5 years of qualifying experience; alternatively, a master’s degree or U.S. equivalent in one of these fields, plus 3 years of qualifying experience.
• Qualifying experience must be as a Cloud Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or in a role performing platform-focused software engineering, DevOps engineering, or site reliability engineering.
• 3 years of professional experience administering a Kubernetes-based platform, including multi-cluster setups and cloud-hosted clusters, including EKS.
• 3 years of professional experience administering Linux systems and Linux-based containers, including system performance tuning and troubleshooting operating-system issues.
• 3 years of professional experience configuring and administering observability tools, including establishing alerts and incident management ceremonies.
• 2 years of professional experience supporting a large-scale microservice-based platform, including CI/CD pipelines, observability systems, ingress/egress, service mesh, and service-to-resource integrations such as relational databases, messaging/streaming, and caches.
• 2 years of professional experience working with cross-functional teams, including security, IT, and finance, to address security, compliance, and FinOps-related tasks.
• 2 years of professional experience with AWS or GCP cloud platforms, managing multi-account, multi-region environments provisioned using infrastructure-as-code tools, including Terraform.
• 2 years of professional experience developing software in a compiled language such as Java or developing and scripting in an interpreted language such as Python.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support infrastructure components, including AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD platforms, and third-party solutions.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure-related issues to support engineering teams and maintain business continuity.
• Develop and maintain standardized infrastructure, backend, and database configurations to promote consistency, reliability, observability, scalability, and performance.
• Evaluate and implement improvements to infrastructure systems as technologies and operational practices evolve.
• Collaborate with backend engineers to design and implement development lifecycle processes, including repository structures, CI/CD workflows, test automation, release processes, documentation standards, monitoring, and alerting.
• Collaborate with product managers, security, IT, and finance to support timely delivery, infrastructure security, and cost-effectiveness.
• Provide technical assistance and share knowledge with engineering team members, including participating in interviews, delivering knowledge-sharing sessions, and supporting peer learning.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry practices relevant to infrastructure engineering and implement approved initiatives supporting infrastructure roadmap objectives and system improvements.

What This Job Offers

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