Staff Platform Engineer - CI/CD Focus

Job Description

We're looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to drive our platform initiatives as we scale into a SaaS-first, high-velocity engineering organization. You'll partner with product engineering, SRE, and leadership to transform our CI/CD, evolve our repository and service architecture, and embed operational best practices across teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the implementation and optimization of CI/CD frameworks, developer tooling, and platform enablement using GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, and modern deployment strategies
• Execute the strategy to split our monorepo and evolve our repo & build systems with intelligent caching and microservices CI/CD
• Create self-service CI/CD platforms that reduce build & deployment time from hours to minutes
• Manage artifact registries, dependency management, and create secure, scalable build environments supporting our transition to SaaS architecture.
• Build a scalable SaaS platform foundation — deployment automation, provisioning, multi-tenancy considerations using GitOps patterns
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed SRE practices into daily workflows (observability, reliability reviews, incident response)
• Contribute to building a high-impact platform engineering team focused on developer experience and productivity
• Be hands-on in technical design and architectural decisions, especially around CI/CD, deployments, and platform services
• Partner with security and compliance on platform-level initiatives including automated security scanning and GitLab security features
• Establish automated testing strategies, quality gates, and feedback loops for development teams
• Implement pipeline observability and performance optimization with GitLab monitoring and ArgoCD dashboards

Qualifications and Skills

• 10+ years in engineering roles, with at least 7+ years building/deploying platform tooling at scale
• Expert-level knowledge of CI/CD tools, particularly GitLab CI/CD and hands-on experience with GitOps and ArgoCD
• Proven experience splitting monolithic codebases or moving towards service-oriented architectures
• SaaS operational experience — understanding of multi-tenancy, deployment automation, and release engineering
• Experience driving SRE principles like observability, incident management, and operational excellence within engineering teams
• Strong collaboration skills with experience mentoring other engineers and working cross-functionally
• Proficiency in containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi, Terraform, CloudFormation), and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Deep understanding of software build systems, dependency management, and security best practices in CI/CD pipelines

Technical Skills & Platform Focus:

CI/CD Platforms: GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Tekton, CircleCI
Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
Languages: Python, Go, Bash, YAML
Cloud Platforms: AWS, GCP, Linode, Azure (with GitLab integration)
Infrastructure as Code: Pulumi, Terraform, CloudFormation
Build Systems: Maven, Gradle, npm, Docker, Bazel
Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, GitLab monitoring, ArgoCD metrics
Security: SAST/DAST tools, container scanning, secrets management, GitLab security features

Bonus Qualifications

Bonus: Experience in data platforms, observability, high-scale distributed systems, ArgoCD ApplicationSets, and multi-cluster deployments