Senior Platform Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer for the Platform Engineering Team at Mux, you will be a contributor to the design and operation of the infrastructure that powers Mux’s high traffic, distributed platforms in addition to our build and deployment systems. Our Platform Engineering team works cross-functionally to ensure that services are scalable, reliable and easy to operate. We invest in infrastructure, automation and tooling that reduces friction for engineers to build, develop and manage our products.

Participate in the design and deployment of major shared container orchestration infrastructure components to meet the growing demands of the distributed systems powering our products
Improve the usability of our platform services and CI/CD systems through tooling and automation to drive the velocity of our product engineering teams
Lead cross-functional projects with other engineering teams and contribute to strategic roadmap initiatives
Debug production issues across applications and services at all layers of the infrastructure stack
Evolve our engineering standards and processes
Champion best practices for availability, reliability, capacity planning, incident management, and production readines

Expertise in building and scaling business-critical Kubernetes infrastructure through all phases of the cluster lifecycle
Software engineering skills for developing tools and automation solutions with Go
Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD systems using technologies like Bazel, Terraform, and Argo CD/Workflows/Rollouts
Deep knowledge of engineering fundamentals such as TCP/UDP, HTTP, TLS, DNS, and Linux system administration
Ability to evolve infrastructure platforms through shared service abstractions and automation, creating a seamless user experience for our development teams
Healthy, respectful relationships to support all of our partner teams such as Product, Analytics and Developer Experience
Proficiency in implementing and utilizing infrastructure observability and monitoring tools (Grafana Cloud, prometheus, OpenTelemetry, eBPF