Senior Platform Engineer - Kubernetes

Whoop
Boston
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 150,000 - 215,000 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Stakeholder collaboration","Performance evaluation","Incident response","Mentorship"]

Own and operate large-scale Kubernetes infrastructure that powers WHOOP’s App Infrastructure platform. Drive architectural improvements across scalability, resiliency, performance, and security, while building tooling to increase deployment safety and accelerate CI/CD and release velocity. Partner with application, security, and data teams to embed secure-by-default practices, lead incident response and postmortems, and mentor engineers to guide the AppInfra Kubernetes roadmap.

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Whoop
4 weeks ago

Senior Platform Engineer - Kubernetes

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Job Summary

Own and operate large-scale Kubernetes infrastructure that powers WHOOP’s App Infrastructure platform. Drive architectural improvements across scalability, resiliency, performance, and security, while building tooling to increase deployment safety and accelerate CI/CD and release velocity. Partner with application, security, and data teams to embed secure-by-default practices, lead incident response and postmortems, and mentor engineers to guide the AppInfra Kubernetes roadmap.
Location: Boston
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, develop, and operate Kubernetes clusters running on AWS infrastructure.
  • •Drive architectural decisions to improve scalability, resiliency, performance, and security across the build and deployment platform.
  • •Build systems and tooling to increase deployment safety and accelerate release velocity to Kubernetes.
  • •Advance CI/CD capabilities to support frequent, reliable production deployments.
  • •Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems to continuously improve platform reliability; mentor engineers and help set the AppInfra roadmap.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 150,000 - 215,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform, Site Reliability, Cloud Engineering, or Backend Software Engineering roles.
  • •Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture and core components.
  • •Strong knowledge of container networking, including overlay networking, service meshes, and network policies.
  • •Experience operating cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS (e.g., IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, CloudTrail, Organizations).
  • •Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) and developing backend or infrastructure-adjacent services using Java, C#, or Python.
Experience:5+ yearsDevOpsPlatformSite ReliabilityCloud Engineering
Skills:Technical leadershipStakeholder collaborationPerformance evaluationIncident responseMentorship
Tech Stack:KubernetesKafkaAWSIAMVPCEC2S3RDSCloudTrailOrganizationsTerraformJavaC#PythonCI/CDService meshesNetwork policiesContainer networkingOverlay networking

Company Brief

Whoop
Whoop designs and sells a subscription-based wearable fitness tracker and analytics platform that monitors recovery, strain, and sleep to optimize athletic performance and daily health for consumers and professional athletes.
Industry: Wearables
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Boston, United States
Founded: 2012
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