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Staff Platform Engineer - Amplitude
Devops Engineer
Senior platform engineer leading the design, implementation, and scaling of cloud-native infrastructure for an AI analytics platform, leveraging Python, Go, Kubernetes, and AWS to deliver high‑performance, reliable services.
About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and build highly available, scalable platform services that power AI‑driven analytics workloads.
- Lead the migration of legacy components to cloud‑native technologies such as Kubernetes and serverless AWS services.
- Define and enforce best practices for CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and observability across the platform.
- Mentor engineering teams, conduct design reviews, and drive technical standards for code quality and performance.
- Collaborate with product, data, and security teams to ensure platform compliance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on large‑scale platform development.
- Deep expertise in Python and Go, and strong hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS services (EKS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB).
- Proven track record designing distributed systems, microservices, and high‑throughput data pipelines.
- Extensive experience implementing CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, and alerting frameworks.
- Excellent problem‑solving skills, ability to lead technical discussions, and a growth‑mindset culture fit.
Skills
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