Platform Engineer

hud
San Francisco, Singapore
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 140 - 250 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["Ownership","Learning potential","Problem-solving"]

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.

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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, Singapore
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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