Staff Platform Engineer
Title: Staff Platform Engineer
Reports to: Engineering Manager
Location: Remote US
Compensation Range: $200,000 to $220,000 base plus bonus and equity
What You'll Do:
Huntress is expanding our Platform Engineering team and looking for a Staff Platform Engineer who brings unshakeable resilience to complex infrastructure challenges. In this role, you will build, monitor, and scale the core cloud infrastructure supporting our security platform. You will step up to own platform infrastructure resilience and tackle complex problems across multi-region environments. Variety is built into this role: one week you might author custom Kubernetes admission controllers, and the next you are tackling multi-region capacity failover automation or tracking down obscure memory leaks in production pods. AI coding agents are part of how this team works, and you will be expected to use them to move faster without loosening the bar on what reaches production.
You will get a full handle on our infrastructure stack and drive high-impact roadmap initiatives that directly keep our production environment rock-solid. We do not wait for permission to fix things here. You will spot platform bottlenecks, step up with concrete solutions, and stay unshakeable under system chaos. Beyond immediate infrastructure work, you will build a strong reputation across the engineering organization as a trusted technical partner who delivers measurable outcomes.
Responsibilities:
Design and enhance cloud infrastructure across multi-region and multi-cloud environments to improve service reliability, cost, and capacity failover
Author custom Kubernetes tools, controllers, and infrastructure code using Terraform, Go, Python, or Ruby
Support and extend observability infrastructure using Datadog to give deep visibility into system health and platform performance
Diagnose and fix complex production issues, performance bottlenecks, and resource constraints across cloud environments
Collaborate across engineering teams to guide software architecture choices and eliminate infrastructure pain points
What You Bring to the Team:
7+ years of experience managing Linux-based cloud infrastructure
Deep expertise in multi-region or multi-cloud resilience
3+ years of hands-on experience orchestrating production workloads in Kubernetes
Strong coding proficiency in Go, Ruby, or Python, with a mindset focused on building scalable infrastructure tools
Proven track record operating enterprise observability tools like Datadog to diagnose and resolve performance issues
Hands-on experience with AI coding agents, with sound judgement about where their output needs verification
Experience managing automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform (or any similar IaC tool)
Clear communication style with a track record of collaborating across engineering teams to solve complex platform problems
What We Offer:
100% remote work environment - since our founding in 2015
Generous paid time off policy, including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays
12 weeks of paid parental leave
Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans
401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution
Life and Disability insurance plans
Stock options for all full-time employees
One-time $500 reimbursement for building/upgrading home office
Annual allowance for education and professional development assistance
$75 USD/month digital reimbursement
Access to the BetterUp platform for coaching, personal, and professional growth