Staff Platform Engineer
GRIDSIGHT
Coniston
1 week ago
Staff Platform Engineer
Gridsight is a fast-growing Grid/CleanTech startup seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to build foundational platform systems enabling product squads to ship faster and with greater confidence. The role involves solving cross-cutting problems in observability, deployment pipelines, environment management, and AI-assisted developer tooling, requiring deep cloud infrastructure experience and a strong platform engineering mindset.
On-site
Full-time
Entry Level
AWS
Terraform
Salary
Not specified
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
AWSTerraformInfrastructure-as-codeContainer orchestrationObservability platformsMetrics, tracing, logging, alertingCI/CDSoftware engineering fundamentalsAI-assisted development toolingAgentic coding tools
Soft Skills
mentoringcollaborationtechnical leadershipproblem solvingcommunicationfeedback seekingiteration
Preferred Qualifications
Technical (Nice-to-have)
SLOs, error budgets, incident management, chaos engineering, war gamesInternal developer platformsPaaSDatabricksSparkdbtAuth0Azure ADSAML/SSOOIDC
Key Responsibilities
- Identify and solve cross-cutting platform problems that prevent product squads from shipping faster and with confidence
- Build and operate observability platforms — metrics, tracing, logging, alerting
- Evolve deployment automation, release management, and infrastructure-as-code
- Tackle environment management and test infrastructure to reduce lead time and tighten CI feedback loops
- Architect secure, cost-effective, scalable infrastructure across multi-tenant, multi-region deployments
- Bring platform engineering standards into data layer (dbt, Databricks): CI/CD, automated testing, environment promotion, observability
- Act as culture carrier for platform and reliability engineering — mentoring engineers across squads
- Treat internal developers as customers: seek feedback, measure satisfaction, iterate on tooling
Staff Platform EngineerGridsightPlatform engineeringInfrastructureAWSTerraformObservabilityCleanTechUtilitiesSeries A