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

Match Group • Los Angeles, CA

3d • $160,513 - $192,835 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Staff Platform Engineer designs, implements, and supports infrastructure components, including AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD platforms, and third-party solutions. The role troubleshoots infrastructure issues, maintains business continuity, and develops standardized infrastructure, backend, and database configurations to support consistent, reliable, observable, scalable, and performant systems. It evaluates and implements infrastructure improvements as technologies and operational practices evolve.

In collaboration with backend engineers, the role designs and implements development lifecycle processes, including version-control repository structures, CI/CD workflows, test automation, releases, documentation, monitoring, and alerting. The engineer works with product managers and teams across security, IT, and finance to support timely delivery, infrastructure security, and cost-effectiveness. The role also provides technical assistance and knowledge sharing to engineering colleagues, participates in interviews, evaluates emerging technologies and practices, and implements approved initiatives aligned with infrastructure roadmap objectives.

Telecommuting may be permitted. When not telecommuting, the employee must report to 8833 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, California 90069. Salary: $160,513–$192,835 per year.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, plus 5 years of experience as a Cloud Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or in a role involving platform-focused software engineering, DevOps engineering, or site reliability engineering; alternatively, a master’s degree or U.S. equivalent in one of those fields plus 3 years of such experience.
• 3 years of professional experience administering a Kubernetes-based platform, including multi-cluster setups and clusters hosted on cloud platforms, 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 pipeline maintenance, observability systems, ingress/egress, service-to-service communication (mesh), and service-to-resource integrations such as RDBMes, messaging/streaming, and caches.
• 2 years of professional experience working with cross-functional teams, including security, IT, and finance, responding to security and compliance issues and FinOps-related tasks.
• 2 years of professional experience with AWS or GCP cloud platforms, managing multi-account, multiregion environments provisioned with infrastructure-as-code tools, including Terraform.
• 2 years of professional experience developing software using 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 continuity of business operations.
• Develop and maintain standardized infrastructure, backend, and database configurations to ensure systems are consistent, reliable, observable, scalable, and performant.
• Evaluate and implement improvements to infrastructure systems as technologies and operational practices evolve.
• Design and implement development lifecycle processes with backend engineers, including repository structures, CI/CD workflows, test automation, release processes, documentation standards, and monitoring and alerting configurations.
• Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional teams, including security, IT, and finance, to support timely delivery, infrastructure security, and cost-effectiveness.
• Provide technical assistance and knowledge sharing to engineering team members, participate in interviews, deliver technical knowledge-sharing sessions, and support peer learning related to infrastructure systems and tooling.
• 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