[Remote] Platform Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Crossing Hurdles is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to work on remote cloud infrastructure tasks. The role involves creating and managing distributed systems, building containerized environments, and developing integration and recovery tests.
Responsibilities
- Create realistic cloud infrastructure tasks involving distributed systems, networking, security, scalability, and reliability
- Build reproducible, containerized environments with valid reference solutions and intentionally defective variants
- Define measurable requirements across infrastructure configuration, deployed topology, and runtime behavior
- Develop deterministic integration, load, security, failure-injection, deployment, and recovery tests
- Debug environments, document technical decisions, and review tasks created by other experts
Skills
- Senior-level cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, or SRE experience, including personal ownership of a production platform
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems, scalable APIs, queues, autoscaling, durable storage, and partial-failure scenarios
- Practical experience with IAM, private networking, least-privilege access, and service-to-service security
- Experience with observability, measurable SLOs, rolling deployments, rollback strategies, and disaster recovery
- Ability to write infrastructure automation or testing tools and debug containerized environments using a relevant programming language
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