Senior/Staff Platform Engineer

About the role

Join coderabbit as a founding Platform Engineer, taking charge of the core infrastructure that powers our AI engine and product suite. This is a foundational role where you will establish the technical direction and architectural patterns for all future development. You will build critical systems from scratch, ensuring they are robust and scalable across a multi-region cloud environment.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Own the compute, orchestration, and infrastructure layers for coderabbit's AI engine and products.
• Define the technical strategy and architectural decisions for the platform.
• Build and operate large-scale distributed systems in a multi-region cloud environment.
• Establish best practices and patterns for other engineering teams to follow.
• Debug and resolve complex distributed failures in production systems.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in Platform, Infrastructure, or Site Reliability Engineering, with a focus on building platforms.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including control plane configuration, operator development, scheduler tuning, and runtime debugging.
• Proven ability to build and run large-scale distributed systems, understanding trade-offs and failure modes.
• Strong background in cloud compute on GCP or AWS, understanding underlying primitives beyond managed services.
• Deep proficiency in Docker and container runtime internals, including image layering, networking, and security.

Skills & tools

• Container & Orchestration: CRDs, operators, admission webhooks, RBAC, network policies, autoscaling, Docker/OCI toolchain
• Distributed Systems: Queuing, eventual consistency, backpressure, graceful degradation
• Infrastructure as Code: Advanced Terraform for module design, state management, programmatic provisioning
• Cloud Platforms: GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, VPC, IAM, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Load Balancing)
• Programming: Node.js/TypeScript or Go for tooling and automation
• Observability: Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, custom instrumentation, distributed tracing, SLO-based alerting
• Systems: Linux internals, networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, eBPF), storage systems