Platform Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Sensor Tower’s digital intelligence platform provides unparalleled insight into market trends, advertising, competitor’s strategies, and consumer/user audience across mobile, web, and gaming. Sensor Tower’s insights are trusted by more than 2,500 enterprises worldwide across tech, retail/commerce, entertainment/media, gaming, consumer packaged goods, finance, and investment. We’re looking for a Platform Engineer to improve the infrastructure, developer tooling, and delivery workflows used by more than 100 engineers. The role combines infrastructure and software development, with an approximate 65/35 split. You’ll work on cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, observability, CI/CD, and internal tooling. The goal is to make development and releases more reliable, efficient, and straightforward.

🏢 About Sensor Tower

Sensor Tower is a global provider of digital intelligence solutions, empowering companies to understand consumer behavior and market performance across mobile apps, digital platforms, and gaming ecosystems. Headquartered in San Francisco, Sensor Tower's insights are trusted by more than 2,500 enterprises worldwide. Founded in 2013, Sensor Tower’s market insights have helped marketers, app developers, and gaming leaders demystify the mobile app ecosystem with visibility into usage, engagement, and paid acquisition strategies. Today, Sensor Tower’s digital market insights platform has expanded to include Gaming, Web, Audience, and Digital Advertising Insights, helping global leaders understand market trends and their competitor’s strategies and audiences across the entire digital ecosystem.

🎯 The Role

The role combines infrastructure and software development, with an approximate 65/35 split. You’ll work on cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, observability, CI/CD, and internal tooling. The goal is to make development and releases more reliable, efficient, and straightforward.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Improve developer experience and engineering productivity by building tools and workflows that make it easier for engineers to develop, test, and ship software.
• Maintain infrastructure automation with Ansible, Terraform, and Terragrunt.
• Improve the reliability and performance of our CI/CD workflows.
• Find the causes of slow builds, failed pipelines, and flaky tests.
• Develop internal tools, improve test infrastructure, and occasionally work on product features.
• Improve observability across our infrastructure and delivery workflows using OpenTelemetry, ELK.
• Leverage AI to improve engineering workflows by building cloud-based agent tools and helping teams adopt effective practices.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Experience developing and maintaining complex CI/CD workflows.
• Software development experience, such as building internal tools, APIs, backend services, or automation.
• Experience with AWS or another cloud provider.
• Telemetry and monitoring experience (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Kibana).
• Strong Computer Science and System Design fundamentals.
• Willingness to learn and use Ruby and/or Go.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience optimizing CI build times, especially with Jenkins.
• Experience with Docker or Kubernetes.
• Experience with Ruby, Python, or JavaScript.
• Familiarity with build systems such as Webpack or Gradle.

🎁 Benefits

Competitive

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Not specified