Staff Platform Engineer - Infra + DevOps

Honor is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to build and maintain the infrastructure and core services that power its Care Platform. The role focuses on foundational systems, build and deployment pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and enabling engineering teams to deliver reliably and efficiently.

Responsibilities:

• The platform engineering team builds and manages the infrastructure & core services that powers Honor’s Care Platform
• Our charter is focused on providing foundational building blocks to enable the entire engineering organization to deliver reliably and efficiently
• We also own build and deployment pipelines of our services, maintenance of various environments and their supporting infrastructure and serve as consultants to build the right abstractions for patterns of problems

Requirements:

• You thrive in a foundational role supporting diverse, cross-functional teams as your customers, possess exceptional problem solving and analytical skills
• At least 6 years of professional experience in a platform engineering team within a product-centric company
• 5+ years' in designing and implementing foundational patterns and libraries for Python applications, across a range of technologies from API services to event processing
• 3+ years' experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as CDK (preferred), Terraform and Ansible
• 3+ years' experience working alongside a production system running on Kubernetes
• 3+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering, preferably with AWS
• 3+ years' experience in developing and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, ArgoCD
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g., Bash, Python, Go) and software engineering concepts
• Experience with Helm including but not limited to managing helm charts as well as creating custom charts from existing ones or building new
• Experience with networking security and secret-management tools (e.g. Vault, AWS SSM)
• Have experience automating the lifecycle management of code from development through production, including code promotion and configuration management
• Proficient in instrumenting observability through tools such as CloudWatch and DataDog to monitor and optimize application performance across multiple environments
• Have passion for delivering turn-key developer experience for local development
• Keen interest in developing talent through mentorship
• Strong written and verbal communication, tailored to a variety of audiences
• A strategic thinker with a product-first approach and customer obsession
• You have experience working with an RPC architecture
• You work at or have worked at a technology startup and familiar with the challenges of evolving platform maturity
• You have first hand experience navigating multiple distributed architecture patterns
• Knowledge of infrastructure security review and compliance frameworks