[Remote] Platforms Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Storyblocks is a content company providing video, audio, images, and creative tools through a subscription model. The Platforms Engineer will build and operate AWS infrastructure, maintain CI/CD pipelines, improve observability, and enhance developer experience across a microservices platform. The role also involves partnering with engineering teams and growing into ownership of complex platform projects.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and scale AWS infrastructure that supports our microservices platform
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines that make shipping fast, reliable, and safe
• Build reusable, templated configuration (Helm charts, CircleCI orbs) so teams get consistent, standardized deployments and pipelines instead of reinventing them
• Manage infrastructure through code, treating infra changes with the same rigor as application code
• Improve observability and monitoring so teams can understand and debug their systems in production
• Partner with product engineering teams, translating platform concepts into practical guidance and cutting friction from their day-to-day work
• Make and document thoughtful technical trade-offs, and grow into leading complex platform projects end to end

Skills

• You're comfortable working in AWS and know your way around its core services
• You've used observability or monitoring tools (like Datadog) to understand what your systems are doing
• You're handy with at least one scripting or programming language
• You've worked with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform, or you're eager to
• You've helped run and scale infrastructure, and you're excited to grow into bigger, higher-traffic systems
• You've built or maintained CI/CD pipelines
• You care about doing right by the engineers who depend on your work, and you keep developer experience front of mind
• You can explain a gnarly platform concept to someone who doesn't live in infrastructure all day
• You think through trade-offs and can walk someone through your reasoning
• You take ownership of your work, and you're ready to grow into leading bigger, more complex projects
• You're curious and love to learn. You pick up new tools and skills on your own, and you use AI to sharpen and speed up your work
• Storyblocks' engineering and company values resonate with you
• Experience with Helm and Kubernetes (or other container orchestration), and tools like ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, and Istio
• Hands-on with CircleCI, GitHub Actions, or similar CI/CD platforms
• Experience with Datadog or another APM/observability tool
• Working knowledge of databases (relational or NoSQL): provisioning, tuning, or operating them
• Experience designing and deploying microservices
• General knowledge of security, release engineering, or QA

Benefits

• 401(k) retirement plan with both a Traditional and Roth 401(k) and a company match
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums covered 100% for you and your dependents
• Birthing parents receive up to 12 weeks of paid medical recovery leave plus 4 weeks of paid bonding leave (up to 16 weeks total)
• Non-birthing parents receive 4 weeks of paid bonding leave
• Parents welcoming a child through adoption, surrogacy, or foster placement receive up to 12 weeks of paid bonding leave
• Unlimited vacation
• Two company-wide week breaks in July and December
• Fully remote work
• Company and team events
• Company-sponsored mentorship and growth
• Encouragement to attend meetups, with the company happy to host them as well
• A leadership coach, on staff, available to all employees to enhance professional development
• A financial wellness program
• A subscription service that offers unlimited deliveries from thousands of eligible restaurants with $0 delivery
• A recognition and rewards program that celebrates employees' accomplishments
• Casual work environment

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