Platform Engineer

Description :

Roles & Responsibilities :

As a Platform Engineer, you will design and build a cloud based custom Observability Platform, leveraging software-driven approaches to tackle complex, data-intensive challenges.

This platform is a core engineering system that empowers the engineering community with advanced tools and capabilities to troubleshoot, optimize, and gain deeper insights into their services.

Within Platform engineering, you will bring in engineering practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, and automated pipelines, ensuring the platform is reliable, scalable, and easy to adopt.

You will collaborate with service teams across the organization to shape adoption, define standards, and improve platform capabilities.

The ideal candidate is a creative thinker, passionate about technology, and driven to innovate.

They should demonstrate data-driven decision-making, curiosity, and a love for solving complex challenges.

If you enjoy problem-solving at scale, building scalable software to automate infrastructure, troubleshooting, and are technically proficient, this is the role for you.

This job description represents multiple software development roles available within the Observability at WBD.

This includes the following platform areas :

- Logging

- Metrics

- Service Catalog

- You work within Platform team and be a subject matter expert on one or more Platform components

- You build multiple stable, scalable feature changes that can be successfully shipped to customers in production.

- Your software contributions in production are the model for highly available, low latency, and efficient software.

- You participate in an inclusive and supportive engineering culture.

- You influence the technical vision and priorities for your team.

- You demonstrate good software development practices.

- You provide technical documentation describing your contribution and contributing enhancements to your teams best practices.

What to Bring :

The ideal candidate has a passion for technology :

You likely have been a software developer in your past developing features for customers in either a customer facing application or backend service.

However, during your tenure, you have found interest in serving your fellow software developers through innovative platforms, tools, services, and processes that help them be productive.

You also have amazing skills that allow you to take requirements to produce scalable, reliable, and easy to understand architecture.

- At least 3 years of overall experience in software, systems, and infrastructure.

- At least 1-2 years of experience managing public cloud infrastructure with AWS, implementation, and maintenance of different environments.

- Strong CS fundamentals and a track record of implementing highly reliable automation using any scripting or programming language such as Python/Go/Typescript.

- Hands-on experience with at least one IaC tool (e.CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation, Lambda)

- Operational experience rotation, incident response, playbooks, gamedays, etc).

- Ability to collaborate effectively with remote peers across disparate geographies and time zones.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with particular emphasis on technical documentation (including diagramming)

Good to Have :

Experience with a variety of cloud services like OpenSearch, AMP, network, storage, Victoria Metrics etc.

Experience with container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes or AWS EKS.

Hands-on experience with automating development workflow pipelines.

Understanding of distributed systems, microservice architecture, kafka, logging/metric/tracing platforms (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL etc), and security