Remote Senior Platform Engineer (PHP)

Description:

• ShiftKey is a platform that connects healthcare facilities with licensed and certified professionals to fill available shifts, addressing staffing shortages in the healthcare industry.
• As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain cloud-based applications, ensuring platform stability, scalability, and performance.
• You will apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices, optimize code, automate processes, and manage CI/CD pipelines and cloud systems.
• The role involves leading key platform projects, delivering solutions aligned with company goals, and transitioning the system from a monolithic to a microservices architecture.
• You will be responsible for designing and developing cross-team applications, performing coding, debugging, testing, and troubleshooting throughout the application development process.
• The position requires driving large-scale architectural changes to ensure scalability, modularity, and improved fault tolerance across distributed systems.
• You will architect, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable, and high-performance cloud infrastructure to support application deployment and operation.
• Proactively identifying opportunities for improvement in current projects and infrastructure is essential, along with advocating for enhancements and promoting best practices in platform development and operations.
• Implementing infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation to automate provisioning, scaling, and management of cloud resources is also part of the role.

Requirements:

• You must have 4+ years of experience in software engineering with the PHP stack, including Laravel.
• A minimum of 2+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, or a similar technical role is required.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar is necessary.
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and automation tools to ensure seamless application delivery is essential.
• Basic knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering principles and practices, including incident management, performance monitoring, and resilience engineering, is required.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills are necessary, with the ability to resolve complex system and infrastructure issues.

Benefits:

• ShiftKey offers an inclusive and collaborative work environment.
• Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage is provided, effective from the first day of employment.
• Employees enjoy progressive PTO and company-paid holidays, including a broad selection of floating holidays to honor diverse needs.
• The company provides a 100% 401(k) employer match up to 6%.
• Paid parental leave is available for employees.
• There is an investment in employee wellness, including access to mental health support.