Staff Platform Engineer

URBN • Philadelphia, PA

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About The Position

URBN is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to join the development of AI-powered digital experiences. We are looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to join our mission of integrating algorithmic solutions with creative tools. In this unique opportunity, you will use your Platform engineering skills to implement experiences and cutting-edge algorithms into our rapidly evolving products across our digital ecosystem. You will collaborate with a talented cross-functional team comprising UX designers, data scientists, product managers, and domain experts to deliver significant business impact.

Requirements

• Proven track record in Platform, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Deep knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services (Cloud Run, BigQuery, AlloyDB, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, IAM).
• Extensive experience with Terraform and/or OpenTofu. Familiarity with TACoS (Terraform Automation and Collaboration Software) is a major plus.
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) and automation tools.
• Proficiency in Python and comfortable navigating complex microservices and data pipelines in our monorepo.
• A security-first mindset, valuing zero-trust networks and secure-by-default infrastructure.
• You are respectful, kind, and caring. You communicate effectively across remote and in-person environments and thrive in a culture that embraces rapid technological change.

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing AI/ML infrastructure, specifically Vertex AI or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with our specific stack: FastAPI, Pydantic, dbt, Airflow, and LangGraph.
• Experience building CLI tooling and utilizing task runners like `just` to craft a fantastic developer experience for your teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain our OpenTofu/Terraform modules.
• Champion security across the platform.
• Build and manage continuous integration and delivery pipelines using GitHub Actions and TACoS
• Enhance our GCP-native observability stack (Cloud Monitoring, SLOs, Alert Policies) to ensure our FastAPI services and Cloud Run instances maintain excellent uptime, performance, and clear correlation tracking with request traces and spans.
• Embrace and help shape our Agentic AI workflows.
• Bring your comfort with Python to help maintain our core tooling, orchestration (Airflow/LangGraph), and shared infrastructure libraries (managed via `uv` & Pydantic), recognizing that human oversight is critical even as AI writes more production code.
• Act as a mentor to less experienced team members, actively seeking to "level up" those around you. Communicate technical decisions clearly and respectfully, whether in deep architectural design sessions or via remote Slack discussions.

Benefits

• URBN offers comprehensive Perks & Benefits to employees.
• Availability and eligibility to specific benefits may be subject to your location and employment status.
• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, PTO, generous employee discounts, retirement savings and much more!
• For additional information visit www.urbn.com/work-with-us/benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees