Staff Platform Engineer

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EngineeringDevops Engineer

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Overview

🧠 About Cortex Cortex is the Engineering Operations Platform - mission control for the AI software factory. As AI multiplies how much teams ship,

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EngineeringDevops Engineer

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→Define architecture and best practices for the platform and infrastructure layer the product is built on
→Own the deploy pipeline and lead the move to a GitOps model (Argo) for fast, safe releases
→Design and harden multi-tenant isolation and blast-radius protection for top-tier customers, including the path to dedicated / single-tenant deployments
→Lead database stabilization and the platform work behind performance, availability, and safe migrations
→Build the infrastructure foundations for compliance-heavy and government deployments (encryption, authentication, boundary and data-flow design)
→Set the standard for observability, on-call, and operational readiness across engineering, and evangelize platform-first thinking
→Collaborate with leadership and product to translate platform capabilities into customer-facing offerings

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Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
10+ years of hands-on experience designing, operating, and scaling high-performance production systems
Deep expertise in Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform)
Strong database proficiency (e.g. Postgres) with experience in performance, availability, and migrations at scale
Architectural judgment at the system and cross-team level - you reason about blast radius and the next class of failure (multi-region, scale step-changes) before it bites
Working proficiency in at least one application language (JVM preferred) - comfortable going into the code to debug or ship a change where the infra and application layers meet
Strong security mindset - IaC, secrets management, least privilege, and common appsec risks
Fluent, critical use of AI in day-to-day engineering, reviewing AI output as carefully as a teammate's PR
Excellent communication and collaboration abilities, with a proven track record of setting technical direction others follow
FedRAMP, FISMA, or other government / compliance deployment experience is a plus
Previous experience at a hyper-growth startup is a plus