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Job Summary:
Gravitate is a company focused on innovative problem-solving in supply and logistics. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will design and evolve the Internal Developer Platform, enabling product teams to self-service their infrastructure and deployments while enhancing developer experience and operational efficiency.
Responsibilities:
• Own and evolve our Developer Experience, building self-service capabilities that allow product engineers paved roads to build with quality & security, deploy applications, and configure observability without operational bottlenecks.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on GCP using Kubernetes and other managed services, ensuring security, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Manage and improve our CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD, driving toward faster, safer, and more consistent software delivery across all teams.
• Lead our Infrastructure as Code practice using Terraform, setting standards for module design, state management, and change workflows.
• Drive improvements in our site reliability across our products, driving centralized logging, observability, and enabling teams across the company to better utilize the observability platforms.
• Enforce and evolve our security posture across cloud environments, including IAM policies, secrets management, network segmentation, and compliance controls.
• Reduce operational toil by identifying and automating repetitive infrastructure and deployment tasks.
• Partner with product engineering teams to understand their infrastructure needs and translate them into platform capabilities and standards.
• Invest in documentation and knowledge-sharing, including runbooks, setup guides, architecture decision records (ADRs), and onboarding materials.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 6+ years of platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering experience, with a strong focus on enabling development teams rather than just operating systems.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes — cluster design, workload management, RBAC, networking, and day-to-day operations.
• Proficient with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), particularly Terraform and have opinionated views on how to structure and manage it at scale.
• Strong cloud provider knowledge, ideally GCP, with hands-on experience in networking, IAM, compute, storage, and managed services.
• Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or Flux, and have a strong understanding of GitOps principles.
• Comfortable writing code in Python. Adding instrumentation and contributing to our platform in areas in the intersection of cloud infrastructure / observability and our applications.
• Experience designing and implementing observability stacks — logging, metrics, alerting, and tracing — and understand how to use them to drive reliability.
• Communicate clearly with non-platform engineers, translating infrastructure concerns into language product teams can act on.
Preferred:
• Experience with ArgoCD, Flux, or other GitOps tools for declarative continuous delivery.
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd.
• Experience using LLM / agentic coding tools such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot to accelerate infrastructure work.
• Experience managing MongoDB, Postgres, and SQL Server in a production environment.
• Experience with secrets management tools such as Vault, Doppler or AWS Secrets Manager.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001) and their infrastructure implications.
• Exposure to our backend stack (Python, .NET, MongoDB, SQL Server, Kubernetes, Docker).
• Experience with modern testing approaches for infrastructure, including Terratest or policy-as-code tools like OPA or Conftest.
Company:
We help fuel companies optimize their sales, supply, dispatch, and logistics with our AI-enabled software platform. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Houston, Texas, US, , with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.