Staff Engineer, Platform (R6019)

$160,000 – $290,000 · Posted 10 days ago

San DiegoLast seen 9 days ago

Summary

Staff Engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating the Forge Platform—a distributed-systems foundation serving autonomy, ML, simulation, and test teams. You will architect cloud-native backend infrastructure, establish reusable platform capabilities, define technical standards, and remain hands-on in production troubleshooting, performance analysis, and reliability improvement. Required: deep expertise in production distributed systems, Go and Python, workflow orchestration, and the ability to translate complex architecture into usable interfaces across multiple downstream teams.

DevOps / Infrastructure Kubernetes Python Terraform Admission Control Apache Airflow Apache Kafka Argo Workflows Argocd Asynchronous Processing AWS Sns AWS Sqs Backpressure Batch Processing Cdc Cni Plugins Consistency Custom Resource Definitions Dagster Data Validation Distributed Systems Distributed Tracing ELT Envoy ETL Event Driven Architecture Event Driven Data Pipelines Fault Tolerance Flyte Gitops Go Grafana Helm Idempotency Infrastructure As Code Jaeger Kuberay Kubernetes Controllers Kubernetes Jobs Kubernetes Operators Loki Nats Jetstream Observability Opentelemetry Partitioning Prefect Prometheus Pulsar Rabbitmq Ray Redpanda Scheduling Extensions Schema Evolution Service Meshes Slos State Management Structured Logging Tempo Temporal Workflow Orchestration