Platform Engineer - Observability and GitOps

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As a key member of our Platform Engineering team, you'll own and evolve the systems that keep our infrastructure fast, reliable, and developer-friendly. You'll lead our observability, CI/CD, and GitOps initiatives, empowering engineers to ship confidently and our systems to scale intelligently. You'll work in a high-traffic, data-driven environment built on EKS, FastAPI, MySQL/ClickHouse, and Kafka.

Key Highlights
Own and evolve observability stack
Implement GitOps workflows with ArgoCD
Maintain and scale EKS clusters
Key Responsibilities
Own and evolve observability stack
Implement GitOps workflows with ArgoCD
Maintain and scale EKS clusters
Standardize environments, automate workflows, and reduce deployment friction
Define and enforce security best practices within CI/CD and AWS environments
Continuously improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response playbooks
Technical Skills Required
Kubernetes EKS Prometheus Grafana ArgoCD GitOps GitHub Actions Terraform Pulumi Docker AWS Python Bash Kafka ClickHouse MySQL Redis KeyDB Cassandra Linkerd Istio IaC CI/CD
Benefits & Perks
Competitive compensation based on experience
Full-time employment
Option to work in-office in Glendale, CA or fully remote
Nice to Have
Experience managing stateful services: MySQL, KeyDB/Redis, ClickHouse, Cassandra
Terraform or Pulumi for Infrastructure as Code
Scripting with Python, Bash, or Go for automation
Data-heavy or real-time systems experience: Kafka, analytics platforms

Job Description


About the Role

As a key member of our Platform Engineering team, you'll own and evolve the systems that keep our infrastructure fast, reliable, and developer-friendly. You'll lead our observability, CI/CD, and GitOps initiatives — empowering engineers to ship confidently and our systems to scale intelligently. You'll work in a high-traffic, data-driven environment built on EKS, FastAPI, MySQL/ClickHouse, and Kafka.


Tech Stack & Skills

Kubernetes · EKS · Prometheus · Grafana · ArgoCD · GitOps · GitHub Actions · Terraform · Pulumi · Docker · AWS · Python · Bash · Kafka · ClickHouse · MySQL · Redis · KeyDB · Cassandra · Linkerd · Istio · IaC · CI/CD


What You'll Do
  • Own and evolve our observability stack — from data collection through long-term retention and dashboarding.
  • Implement GitOps workflows with ArgoCD, automating application lifecycles from commit to production.
  • Maintain and scale EKS clusters — high availability, cost efficiency, and performance.
  • Standardize environments, automate workflows, and reduce deployment friction.
  • Define and enforce security best practices within CI/CD and AWS environments.
  • Continuously improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response playbooks.
  • Collaborate on data lake architecture supporting analytics and data engineering workflows.


Must-Haves
  • Observability Expert: Deep Prometheus / Thanos / VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, PromQL, SLO design, dashboarding and alerting.
  • K8S Expertise: Production workloads on Kubernetes or Amazon EKS — scaling, upgrades, cost management.
  • GitOps Champion: ArgoCD, Flux, or similar tools managing production deployments.
  • 5+ years of relevant SRE / Platform / DevOps experience.


Nice to Have
  • Experience managing stateful services: MySQL, KeyDB/Redis, ClickHouse, Cassandra.
  • Terraform or Pulumi for Infrastructure as Code.
  • Scripting with Python, Bash, or Go for automation.
  • Data-heavy or real-time systems experience: Kafka, analytics platforms.


Success Looks Like
  • Seamless, automated deployments across all environments.
  • Actionable observability: metrics and alerts that detect issues before users do.
  • Zero-downtime rollouts and predictable releases.
  • Developers fully empowered to ship code quickly and safely.


Location & Type

Full-time. In-office in Glendale, CA or fully remote. Competitive compensation based on experience.


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