About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to manage the infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and observability tooling for a streaming platform serving over 60,000 businesses and 150 million monthly viewers. This role focuses on empowering internal engineers by improving their ability to ship code quickly and confidently. The engineer will drive platform initiatives, modernize software build and deployment processes, maintain infrastructure integrity, and lead core system upgrades. Some application code interaction is expected. The role emphasizes using AI as a force multiplier to enhance team velocity.
Responsibilities
- Treat AI as a core part of how you ship, and build the tooling that makes AI effective for every other engineer.
- Own our infrastructure-as-code practice: module design, standards, coverage, and keeping declared state and reality converged.
- Own our CI/CD systems: pipeline architecture, build infrastructure, and the speed and reliability of the path from commit to production.
- Define observability patterns and best practices across the org, so every service is measurable, debuggable, and alertable by default.
- Lead upgrades of datastores, runtimes, frameworks, and SDKs ahead of end-of-life deadlines, including the application-code changes they require.
- Drive security remediation: triage cloud security findings, harden identity and network configuration, and close authentication gaps.
- Champion simplification by decommissioning unused infrastructure, deleting dead code, and keeping our footprint (and cloud bill) no larger than it needs to be.
- Raise the resilience bar: safe deploy patterns, graceful degradation, and incident response focused on root-cause fixes.
- Automate away recurring toil: dependency upgrades, environment provisioning, and the routine work that interrupts product engineers.
- Work cross-functionally to prioritize platform investments by impact.
Requirements
- Bias towards simplicity
- Extreme ownership
- Excellent communication skills, including clear technical writing
- Intrinsically motivated, naturally curious, and enjoy seeking out new problems. Drive novel solutions with groups of other engineers.
- 5+ years building and operating cloud infrastructure at meaningful scale
- Expert-level depth in Terraform or a closely related infrastructure-as-code tool
- Deep experience designing and operating CI/CD systems
- Strong observability background: metrics, tracing, log pipelines, and alerting strategy
- Experience building internal tooling or platforms other engineers use daily
- Experience running containerized and serverless workloads in production
- Security-minded by default: identity, network exposure, authentication boundaries, and vulnerability remediation
- Demonstrated daily use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar)
- Comfortable reading, modifying, and shipping application code
- Background in cloud cost visibility and optimization
- Experience building internal AI tooling or agent-accessible integrations
- Experience operating platforms for streaming media, ad tech, or large device fleets
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future employer sponsorship now or in the future.
Skills
- Terraform
- Infrastructure-as-code
- CI/CD
- Observability
- Metrics
- Tracing
- Log pipelines
- Alerting strategy
- Internal tooling
- Platform engineering
- Containerized workloads
- Serverless workloads
- Cloud security
- Identity management
- Network security
- Authentication
- Vulnerability remediation
- AI coding tools
- Cloud cost optimization
- Streaming media platforms
- Ad tech
- Device fleet management
Location
- Austin, TX
Work Type
- On-site
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 5+ years building and operating cloud infrastructure
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Company Equity
- Company 401(k) with employer matching
- Competitive insurance plans
- Flexible Time Off Policy
About the Company
- Atmosphere is committed to building a diverse, inclusive team where creativity, innovation, and teamwork matter most.
Equal Opportunity
- Don't meet every single requirement? Research shows that women and underrepresented groups often hesitate to apply for roles unless they meet all the criteria. At Atmosphere, we're committed to building a diverse, inclusive team where creativity, innovation, and teamwork matter most. If you're passionate about this role but your experience doesn't check every box, we still want to hear from you. You might just be the right fit for this or another role on our team.
