Senior Platform Engineer, Kubernetes

LTK is the global technology platform purpose-built to empower lifestyle creators to monetize their content.
Cloud
Senior Software Engineer
Remote
6+ years of experience
E-Commerce

Description For Senior Platform Engineer, Kubernetes

LTK is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer with Kubernetes expertise to join their Platform team. This role is part of the LTK Foundation and Platform Engineering team, responsible for building and maintaining LTK's cloud infrastructure and development platform. The team delivers various services and libraries, including automation, configuration management, monitoring, alerting, enterprise infrastructure administration, identity management, and event orchestration.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Building developer-facing tooling and infrastructure to improve satisfaction and development velocity
  • Defining, documenting, and building golden paths for scalable and secure service development
  • Collaborating with teams across the company to gather requirements and drive projects forward
  • Providing guidance and unblocking others while helping team members grow through code reviews
  • Making informed decisions about technical debt and tradeoffs
  • Regularly evaluating and improving scrum team processes

The ideal candidate will have 6+ years of software development experience, with expertise in building developer platforms/frameworks, migrating workloads to Kubernetes/EKS, and working with containerization technologies. Experience with AWS systems, Go/Python/C++/Java, API development, and various data storage technologies is required. The role also demands familiarity with microservices architecture, CI/CD pipelines, and agile methodologies.

LTK offers a remote-first, productivity-first environment with competitive compensation and benefits. The company, founded in 2011, is a leader in creator commerce, connecting brands, creators, and shoppers through its platform. LTK drives over $4 billion in annual retail sales and partners with 7,000+ retailers and 1M brands.

Join LTK to be part of a dynamic team committed to empowering lifestyle creators and driving innovation in the industry.

Last updated a month ago

Responsibilities For Senior Platform Engineer, Kubernetes

  • Build developer-facing tooling and infrastructure that creates developer satisfaction and improves development velocity
  • Define, document and build golden paths for teams to build services in a scalable, secure way
  • Work with teams across the company to gather requirements, support and drive projects forward
  • Provides guidance and unblocks others on the team while helping others grow through code reviews
  • Make good, informed decisions around technical debt and tradeoffs
  • Regularly think about the scrum team's processes and shares complex solutions for improvements with peers and management

Requirements For Senior Platform Engineer, Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Go
Python
Java
  • 6+ years of software development experience
  • Experience building developer platforms/frameworks for companies past the start-up stage
  • Experience migrating workloads onto Kubernetes/EKS
  • Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
  • Experience with AWS systems such as ECS, Lambda, and RDS
  • Experience writing services in Go, Python, C++ or Java
  • Have built scalable internal and public-facing APIs
  • Experience integrating 3rd party API's
  • Expertise in working with various data storage technologies
  • Knowledge of microservices architecture and related technologies
  • Experience Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, system monitors, and log aggregation services
  • Familiarity with agile methods and Scrum or Kanban frameworks
  • Comfortable shipping code multiple times per day
  • Proven experience influencing and mentoring other members of the Engineering team

Benefits For Senior Platform Engineer, Kubernetes

401k
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Parental Leave
  • Competitive compensation and benefits package
  • 401(k) with LTK company matching
  • Medical Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Paid Maternity Leave
  • Paid Paternity Leave
  • Summer Fridays
  • Flexible PTO

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