Senior Platform Engineer

About the role

Skyflow is a data privacy vault delivered via APIs. It helps companies isolate, protect, govern, and use sensitive data such as personal, health, or payment information securely, without losing usability. It’s built on a zero-trust architecture, meaning no one gets access to data unless explicitly allowed.

Skyflow is looking for a Platform Engineer to support the SRE team and help design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and infrastructure. This role combines strong backend development skills with knowledge of SRE practices, contributing to the reliability, automation, and optimization of production systems. The Platform Engineer will collaborate closely with SREs, engineers, and business teams to ensure systems are performant, maintainable, and scalable.

Requirements

5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend development

Experience supporting infrastructure, automation, or reliability practices (SRE exposure is a plus)

Proficiency in backend programming languages such as Python, Go, or TypeScript

Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)

Experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes

Knowledge of CI / CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation), and automation

Hands-on experience with RDBMS and distributed systems

Ability to work collaboratively with SRE and engineering teams to support production systems

Understanding of application observability, monitoring, and performance best practices

Responsibilities :

Develop automation and tooling to improve system monitoring, incident response, and operational efficiency.

Build and maintain infrastructure as code using IaC technologies like Terraform and CloudFormation.

Collaborate with engineering teams to design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant architectures.

Write production-grade code (Python, Go, or TypeScript) to automate infrastructure management and operational workflows.

Establish and enhance observability practices, including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.

Participate in on-call rotations, incident management, and post-incident reviews to drive continuous improvement.

Contribute to CI / CD pipelines and deployment automation to support reliable software delivery.

Partner with developers to embed reliability and performance best practices throughout the development lifecycle.

We offer :

We welcome new ideas and allow you to make an immediate impact on the team.

Flexible Paid time off (PTO for any reason, including sick days (no specified limits) and flexible work schedule.

Personal laptop.

Health / Sport Budget.

Fully remote.