hud

3 weeks ago

Platform Engineer

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Job Summary

Own the reliability, scale, performance, and developer experience of core platform and backend systems. Partner across AWS and Kubernetes to build secure, cost-effective infrastructure with Terraform, CI/CD, and observability. Improve autoscaling, queueing, backpressure, incident response, and deployment safety so HUD runs faster, more reliably, and cheaper—while keeping engineering workflows productive and low-risk.

Location: San Francisco

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure

Seniority: Entry level

Key Responsibilities

•Own production uptime, latency, provisioning speed, infrastructure cost, and incident response for core platform services.
•Build and maintain AWS infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, Docker, EC2, CodeBuild, ECR, S3, IAM, networking, and secrets management.
•Design and improve backend and platform systems for scale, including capacity planning, autoscaling, queueing, backpressure, cleanup jobs, retries, and rollback paths.
•Define and improve dashboards, alerts, logs, traces, SLOs, runbooks, and on-call workflows for fast detection, debugging, and resolution.
•Build reliable CI/CD, release automation, environment management, and deployment workflows to improve developer productivity and reduce production risk.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 140 - 250 annually

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kGym MembershipCommuter BenefitsPaid Holidays

Key Requirements

•Have owned production cloud infrastructure for a high-availability, user-facing platform, with responsibility for uptime, performance, deployment safety, and cost.
•Have deep experience with AWS infrastructure and containerized systems; experience with Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, EC2, CodeBuild, ECR, S3, IAM, load balancers, networking, and secrets management.
•Have built or operated CI/CD, environment management, release automation, observability, alerting, and incident response systems.
•Can reason about service architecture, APIs, databases, async systems, queues, scaling limits, and production failure modes.
•Can write clean, maintainable code and apply strong software engineering judgment across backend systems and developer workflows.

Experience:ML/AIMarketplaceDeveloper toolsEnterprise platformsWorkflow systems

Skills:OwnershipLearning potentialProblem-solving

Tech Stack:AWSKubernetesTerraformCI/CDObservabilityHelmDockerEC2CodeBuildECRS3IAMLoad balancersNetworkingSecrets managementAutoscalingQueuesSLOsRunbooksIncident response

Company Brief

hud

Hud provides a lightweight developer-focused tool that captures and shares UI components and interactive design specs from the browser to streamline design-to-development handoff and collaboration between designers and engineers.

Industry: Developer Tools

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