Summary

This Staff Platform Engineer role owns operational strategy and technical direction for enterprise GitLab (3,000+ users) and JFrog Artifactory platforms, leading cloud-native transformation and Kubernetes migrations. The position requires 7+ years of enterprise-scale platform operations, 5+ years each with self-managed GitLab and Artifactory in high-availability deployments, and 3+ years of deep Kubernetes expertise. Responsibilities include designing multi-region active-active systems, establishing cloud-native best practices, mentoring team members, and influencing organizational standards for platform engineering and developer experience. Required expertise spans Linux kernel/networking, PostgreSQL high availability, AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes operators, service mesh (Istio), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), observability (Prometheus), and production automation in Python, Go, and Bash.