Platform Engineer - Caching Systems

What You'll Do

• We're looking for a hands-on Platform Engineer to join our international platform team. You'll take ownership of architecting, deploying, and maintaining our caching infrastructure within our Kubernetes ecosystem. This is a mid-level position where you'll work across distributed teams spanning USA and India time zones, collaborating on infrastructure automation and reliability improvements.
• Design & Deploy Caching Systems: Architect and implement caching solutions (Redis, Memcached, etc.) optimized for our Kubernetes clusters, balancing performance, cost, and reliability.
• Infrastructure as Code: Build and maintain Terraform and Ansible playbooks for provisioning, updating, and scaling caching infrastructure.
• Day-2 Operations: Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize caching layer performance; respond to incidents and implement preventative measures.
• Kubernetes Integration: Develop Kubernetes manifests, operators, and controllers for deploying and managing caching workloads; tune resource requests and limits.
• Automation: Create runbooks and automation scripts to reduce manual toil; improve deployment velocity and observability.
• On-Call Support: Participate in on-call rotation to respond to infrastructure incidents and maintain system reliability.
• Collaboration: Partner with platform, infrastructure, and application teams across time zones to understand requirements and deliver solutions.
• Hands-on: You debug issues directly, write code, and prefer building over managing.
• Systems thinker: You understand failure modes and design for resilience
• Communicator: You document decisions and explain trade-offs clearly across distributed teams.
• Pragmatic: You balance perfectionism with shipping solutions that work
• Reliable: You're comfortable being on-call and responding to production incidents.

What We're Looking For

Platform Engineer - Caching Systems

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering or infrastructure experience.
• Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes (operators, deployments, networking, storage)
• Proficiency in Terraform and Ansible — you write IaC confidently and daily
• Production experience architecting or maintaining caching systems at scale
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts (consistency, replication, failover)
• Experience deploying and managing cloud resources, preferably AWS (EC2, RDS, ECS, S3, VPC, IAM)
• Available for on-call rotation (on-call responsibilities shared across the team)
• Comfort working across USA and India overlapping business hours with async-first communication
• Experience troubleshooting infrastructure issues with observability tools

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Familiarity with Crossplane for infrastructure automation and cloud resource management
• Coralogix (or similar SaaS observability platforms) experience
• Multi-cloud experience (GCP, Azure, or others)
• OpenShift or managed Kubernetes platforms (EKS, GKE, AKS)
• Go or Python scripting for infrastructure automation
• GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Flux)
• Helm chart development