Staff Developer Platform Engineer

alignment) is a plus.

• alignment) to drive organization-wide uptake of new platform tooling and practices.

• Willingness to occasionally participate in meetings with US-based and EMEA-based teams outside of standard local hours, given the distributed nature of the Developer Platform team
• Deep, hands-on experience administering GitLab (or a comparable SCM/CI platform) at scale, ideally within a self-hosted ecosystem (GCP/GKE or AWS/EKS/EC2)
• Strong track record managing safe deployment, rollback, and recovery processes for large, distributed cloud systems, including database change management
• Excellent cross-team collaboration and communication skills, with comfort partnering with architects and peer Staff Engineers to define technical direction across a broad, multi-team surface area (Developer Experience, DevOps, connector/DevOps teams, and FinOps-adjacent insights)
• 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, DevOps/Platform Engineer, or SRE, with demonstrated Staff-level scope and impact
• Experience coaching and mentoring engineers, and driving adoption of new tooling and practices across teams
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred)
• Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipeline and orchestration systems, including progressive-delivery tooling (Argo Rollouts, Kargo, or similar)
• Experience with AI-assisted tooling and automation in a platform engineering context (AI SDLC systems)
• Familiarity with test infrastructure, testing at scale, or observability/tracing
• Exposure to third-party database connector ecosystems (ODBC or similar)
• Familiarity with FinOps practices and developer productivity insights/metrics
• Hands-on familiarity with quality-of-life developer tooling
• Background in software architecture or async systems
• Product-management-adjacent experience (roadmapping, driving adoption, stakeholder