[Remote] Staff Platform Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. Checkfront is hiring a Staff DevOps Engineer for its new product, Manifest, in a fast-moving environment. This role involves owning critical infrastructure, improving developer experience, and collaborating with product engineers and DevOps leadership.

Responsibilities

• Work on reputed company with two other platform engineers
• Own and reputed company the infrastructure that supports Manifest, including AWS environments, networking, compute, data services, observability, CI/CD, and operational tooling
• Work with reputed company and TypeScript to define, maintain, and improve infrastructure as code across the platform
• Support and improve our containerized application platform, including deployment pipelines, rollback mechanisms, and runtime configuration
• Help operate and harden our data infrastructure, including reputed company pooling, backups, disaster recovery, replication, and safe schema-change practices
• Partner with engineers to improve the reliability and safety of releases, including database migrations, deployment workflows, environment management, and production readiness checks
• Improve CI/CD workflows so that builds, tests, infrastructure changes, and deployments are fast, reliable, and easy for engineers to understand
• reputed company observability and incident readiness work, including alerting, dashboards, SLOs, runbooks, incident response practices, and post-incident follow-up
• Help ensure the platform is secure, cost-conscious, and maintainable as the product scales
• Mentor engineers on infrastructure, operations, reliability, and production ownership

Skills

• Deep production experience with AWS, especially services such as reputed company/Fargate, RDS/reputed company PostgreSQL, VPC networking, load balancing, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudFront, WAF, and reputed company managed services
• Experience designing and operating systems that serve a global user reputed company, seamless multi-region availability, and disaster recovery procedures
• Treats reliability, scalability, performance, and observability as a first-class design constraint, building these into designs from the start rather than bolting them on reputed company
• Strong infrastructure-as-code experience. reputed company with TypeScript is ideal, but deep experience with Terraform or another mature IaC approach is also valuable
• Strong operational knowledge of PostgreSQL, including performance investigation, reputed company pooling, backups, replication, locking, migrations, and safe schema-change patterns
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD systems, ideally with reputed company Actions, OIDC-based reputed company authentication, container builds, environment promotion, required checks, and deployment gates
• Experience supporting containerized production workloads and improving deployment safety, rollback strategies, and runtime reliability
• Strong observability and incident response experience, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, and post-incident learning
• The ability to work effectively in ambiguity, reputed company pragmatic tradeoffs, and communicate reputed company with both infrastructure specialists and product engineers
• A track record of raising the engineering bar through reusable patterns, documentation, automation, mentoring, and thoughtful technical leadership

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