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Platform Engineer (DevX)

K2 Space· Software
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Los Angeles, CA$123k - $160kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Platform Engineer role in the Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) team for K2 Space. Focus on building deployment patterns, guardrails, and tooling to improve developer experience, secure AI adoption, and reliable production deployments across Amazon EKS.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain golden-path deployment patterns for Amazon EKS, with built-in guardrails that get applications to production faster.
  • Help drive secure, consistent AI adoption across software development, including guardrails, governance, observability, and operational support for AI-assisted workflows.
  • Build automated policies and CI/CD gates that enforce code quality, test coverage, and safe deployments.
  • Integrate end-to-end monitoring, alerting, and SLOs into the platform.
  • Track performance and cost (latency budgets, cross-AZ transfer, IP consumption, load balancer efficiency) and act on anomalies.
  • Write approachable docs and diagnostics, such as guides, diagrams, and "why can't this connect?" flows, that shorten support loops.
  • Run proofs of concept on new AI platforms, models, and developer experience tools.
  • Learn the manufacturing domain and make complex concerns like service identity and secure communication simple for platform users.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience, plus 2+ years building developer tooling, platforms, or deployment patterns.
  • Proficiency in at least one of Go, TypeScript, Python, or C#.
  • Hands-on experience deploying applications on Amazon EKS.
  • Experience with CI/CD (GitHub Actions or GitLab CI) and disciplined Git workflows (branching, reviews, automated gates).
  • Practical experience with AI-assisted development and a clear view of its benefits and pitfalls.

Skills

Required:GoTypeScriptPythonAmazon EKSCI/CD
Nice to have:C#

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, paid parental leave, and many other perks
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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