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Senior Platform Engineer (DevX)

K2 Space· Software
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Los Angeles, CA$165k - $200kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Platform Engineer on the Enterprise Information Systems team focused on building the digital backbone that connects engineering, production, and mission control. Responsible for designing and delivering scalable, observable, AI-enabled platform tooling to accelerate satellite design, manufacturing, and operations.

Responsibilities

  • Build consistent application patterns to deploy to Amazon EKS enabling AI-assisted general application development and specialized development work
  • Promote AI adoption in a secure and consistent model while supporting AI operational needs
  • Establish AI guardrails, observability and governance within software development ensuring AI-assisted application development is secured with industry best practices
  • Build guard rails and out-of-the-box platform functionalities for golden path deployment model and accelerate applications go-live with low friction tooling
  • Lead long term developer experience road map incorporating capabilities from multiple disciplines within software industry
  • Engineer resilient traffic paths (timeouts, retries, circuit breaking, failure isolation) and harden them via chaos tests, automated remediation, and MTTR reduction
  • Incorporate observability services for end-to-end application monitoring and alerting
  • Provide approachable docs & diagnostics (guides, diagrams, ‘why can’t this connect?’ flows) to shorten support loops
  • Optimize performance & cost (latency budgets, cross-AZ transfer, IP consumption, LB efficiency) and act on anomalies
  • Steward code lifecycle and adoption including versioning, safe migrations, deprecations, usage telemetry, and proactive pruning of unused resources
  • Mentor engineers and partner with adjacent teams to embed application abstractions into golden paths, raising organizational fluency and consistency in software engineering
  • Build automated policies and processes to ensure good code deployment practices, code hygiene, good code test practices

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience building developer tooling and deployment patterns
  • Comfortable with performing PoC to evaluate new technology: AI Platform, AI models, introducing new developer experience products
  • Proficiency in at least one language (Go, TypeScript, Python, C#) and disciplined SCM workflows (branching, reviews, automated gates)
  • Deep working knowledge of designing, developing and deploying applications to Amazon EKS
  • Deep working knowledge of CI/CD build pipeline with Github or Gitlab
  • Competence leveraging observability & SLOs (metrics, tracing, structured logs, L4/L7 telemetry, end-to-end path, policy visibility, SLI/SLO)
  • Experience with Terraform or CDK, GitOps (GH Actions, Gitlab CI), progressive/canary rollouts, policy-as-code integration
  • Experience with AI-assisted development process and understanding how to leverage AI to accelerate deliverables

Skills

Required:Developer tooling and deployment patternsAI platform / AI models evaluationGoTypeScriptPython

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, paid parental leave, and many other perks
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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