Platform Engineer

Harrison Clarke - San Francisco Bay Area

Hiring: Platform Engineer Company: Harrison Clarke Location: San Francisco Bay Area Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 23:12:04 Target Skills & Keywords : A/B Testing, CI/CD, Event-Driven, Helm, Jaeger, Kubernetes, LLM, OpenTelemetry, Python, REST, Step Functions, TypeScript About the job Experience: •7+ years of software engineering experience, with significant depth in platform engineering, infrastructure, or developer experience Qualifications: •You've built internal platforms that other engineers genuinely want to use •Strong production experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration — you've operated clusters at scale, built custom operators or controllers, and understand the platform's sharp edges •Deep familiarity with event-driven and workflow orchestration systems •Temporal, Argo, Step Functions, Inngest, or equivalent — and an opinion on where they break for AI workloads •Applied hands-on capability in observability infrastructure •You've designed and operated tracing (OpenTelemetry, Jaeger), structured logging, and custom instrumentation for complex distributed systems •Production exposure to LLM-powered applications •You understand the operational realities of working with model APIs: token economics, prompt management, non-deterministic outputs, latency variance, and provider reliability •Proficiency in Go, Python, or TypeScript •Ideally comfortable across more than one, because the platform serves teams writing in all of them Compensation: •$240,000 - $320,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!