- Workplace
- Remote
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Closing date
- 3 weeks ago
- Source
- CareersPage
Description
Job Title: Sr. Platform Engineer (Azure / Terraform / Backstage)
Time Zone: Full overlap with Pacific Time, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
About the Role
We are looking for a Sr. Platform Engineer to help design and build an automated Golden Path for site bootstrapping. This role will focus on creating a one-click provisioning process for networking, compute, and storage on Azure, exposed through a Backstage developer portal. The ideal candidate has strong experience in cloud infrastructure automation, platform engineering, GitOps, and developer experience tooling. This is a highly technical role requiring strong ownership, architecture skills, and the ability to build scalable, repeatable provisioning frameworks.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build modular Azure infrastructure blueprints using Terraform to support automated site provisioning.
- Develop and customize Node.js-based Backstage plugins, scaffolder actions, and service catalog extensions.
- Build automated state reconciliation workflows using pipelines, controllers, ArgoCD, Flux, OpenTofu, Helm Umbrella charts, and GitOps practices.
- Extend the Backstage Service Catalog to provide visibility into pending, active, and deprecated site footprints.
- Support automated validation, policy-as-code, and PR workflows to reduce manual errors.
- Lead the migration of legacy sites into the new blueprint framework while maintaining configuration parity and minimizing downtime.
Must-have Requirements
- 7+ years of engineering experience.
- Advanced experience with Terraform.
- Strong experience with Azure and the Azure Provider, including VNet peering, Managed Identities, and remote state management at scale.
- Strong backend development experience with Node.js, TypeScript, or JavaScript.
- Direct experience with Backstage, including the Software Catalog and Scaffolder.
- Experience writing template.yaml files and integrating Backstage with GitHub, GitLab, or Azure DevOps.
- Strong experience with CI/CD and GitOps practices.
- Experience with automated PR workflows, automated validation, and policy-as-code.
- Deep understanding of cloud-native networking, compute, and storage scaling.
- Experience working in high-compliance cloud environments.
- Full overlap with Pacific Time, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
- C1 level English.
Nice-to-have Requirements
- Experience with ArgoCD.
- Experience with Flux.
- Experience with OpenTofu.
- Experience with Helm Umbrella charts.
- Experience building internal developer platforms.
- Experience designing self-service infrastructure provisioning workflows.
- Experience migrating legacy cloud environments into standardized infrastructure frameworks.
