Remote Senior Platform Engineer

Description:

• As a Senior Platform Engineer at Mux, you will contribute to designing and operating the infrastructure supporting Mux's high-traffic, distributed platforms.
• The Platform Engineering team collaborates cross-functionally to ensure services are scalable, reliable, and easy to operate.
• You will work on improving platform services' usability through automation and tooling to enhance the velocity of product engineering teams.
• Responsibilities include debugging production issues, partnering with engineering teams to develop new features, evolving engineering standards and processes, and advocating for best practices in availability, reliability, and incident management.
• You will participate in roadmap planning and prioritization for key initiatives.

Requirements:

• Experience in building and scaling business-critical Kubernetes infrastructure, preferably with Go programming experience.
• Strong knowledge of engineering fundamentals like TCP/UDP, HTTP, TLS, DNS, and Linux system administration.
• Ability to enhance infrastructure platforms through shared service abstractions and automation to provide a seamless user experience for development teams.
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools and pipelines (Bazel, Terraform, Argo CD/Workflows/Rollouts) and infrastructure observability and monitoring tools (Grafana Cloud, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, eBPF).
• Experience with HashiCorp Vault and Secrets Management.

Benefits:

• Starting base pay between $185,000 and $230,000, with additional factors like location, education, and experience influencing actual pay.
• Benefits include merit increases, equity, home office stipends, paid holidays, unlimited PTO, medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability benefits, and life insurance.
• Flexible PTO with a 2-week minimum and 11 company holidays, weekly no-meeting days, and quarterly focus weeks.
• Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance with significant premium coverage for employees and dependents.
• Additional benefits like fertility benefits, flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability insurance, group life insurance, and critical illness & accident insurance.
• Employee assistance program, medical support concierge service, 401(k), paid parental leave, and investment in career growth and training.
• Continued education stipend, thought leadership and peer recognition program, reimbursements for headphones, cell phones, device upgrades, and SVoD services of Mux customers, and lunch reimbursement program.