Staff Platform Engineer

2K
Los Angeles
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 160,000 - 180,000 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["Technical leadership","Architectural advisory","Customer-first mindset","Root cause analysis","Influencing without authority"]

Lead the architecture and evolution of the internal developer ecosystem, driving a platform-as-a-product approach and integrating AI/LLM-backed agentic workflows. Own the technical roadmap for the developer portal and Autonomous Agentic Development Platform, enabling golden paths, self-service infrastructure, and automation that accelerate internal game and backend teams. Provide governance for Kubernetes, CI/CD, and service discovery, and help ensure operational resilience through advanced troubleshooting and on-call incident processes.

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Staff Platform Engineer

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Job Summary

Lead the architecture and evolution of the internal developer ecosystem, driving a platform-as-a-product approach and integrating AI/LLM-backed agentic workflows. Own the technical roadmap for the developer portal and Autonomous Agentic Development Platform, enabling golden paths, self-service infrastructure, and automation that accelerate internal game and backend teams. Provide governance for Kubernetes, CI/CD, and service discovery, and help ensure operational resilience through advanced troubleshooting and on-call incident processes.
Location: Los Angeles
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the strategic roadmap and architectural delivery of the developer portal using AI and LLM-backed agentic workflows for environment bootstrapping, troubleshooting, and infrastructure provisioning.
  • •Drive platform-as-a-product strategy for the Internal Developer Platform (IDP), partnering with engineering leaders to deliver self-service capabilities that accelerate software delivery.
  • •Provide infrastructure-as-code architectural direction and governance as teams build and maintain modular, reusable Terraform libraries for standardized provisioning across multi-cloud and on-prem.
  • •Define organization-wide standards for Kubernetes container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and service discovery; partner with engineering leads to ensure adoption and operational consistency.
  • •Provide Tier 2 platform support and establish incident management/escalation strategy, SLA/SLO frameworks, and blameless post-mortems to maintain resilience and platform availability.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 160,000 - 180,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years’ experience in Infrastructure, DevOps, or Platform Engineering, with 4+ years building internal developer platforms or Kubernetes-based tooling.
  • •Expert mastery of Kubernetes architecture and internals (operators, controllers, CRDs).
  • •Deep, expert experience with AWS and/or GCP managing highly elastic, mission-critical production workloads.
  • •Foundational or hands-on experience incorporating Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI agents into automated engineering workflows, APIs, or platform tools.
  • •Advanced proficiency in Go, Python, Java, or Rust for building automation tools, Kubernetes operators, and developer-facing APIs.
Experience:DevOpsInfrastructurePlatform EngineeringKubernetesCloudAIAutomationGaming
Skills:Technical leadershipArchitectural advisoryCustomer-first mindsetRoot cause analysisInfluencing without authority
Languages:En
Tech Stack:KubernetesAWSGCPTerraformGitGitHub ActionsArgoCDCI/CDCRDsOperatorsControllersLLMsLarge Language ModelsAI agents

Company Brief

2K
2K is a video game publisher and developer known for sports, action, and strategy franchises such as NBA 2K, WWE 2K, Borderlands, and Sid Meier’s Civilization. It operates as a major label within Take-Two Interactive.
Industry: Gaming
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Novato, United States
Founded: 2005
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