Staff Platform Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Hevo's platform moves and transforms data for thousands of customers, around the clock. We're looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and observability of the infrastructure that makes that possible — a senior, hands-on engineer who can both operate at depth in AWS and Kubernetes and set technical direction for the broader Platform/DevOps function.

🏢 About Hevo

Hevo is a fully-managed, no-code data pipeline platform that helps organizations move, transform, and activate their data in real time. With 150+ pre-built, battle-tested connectors, Hevo lets data teams focus on insights instead of pipeline maintenance — trusted by 2,000+ organizations globally to keep their data flowing reliably, securely, and in compliance with standards like SOC 2, GDPR, and HIPAA.

🎯 The Role

Own end-to-end reliability, scalability, and performance of Hevo's production infrastructure on AWS, GCP and Kubernetes.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end reliability, scalability, and performance of Hevo's production infrastructure on AWS, GCP and Kubernetes
• Design and evolve our observability stack — metrics, logs, traces, alerting, SLIs/SLOs, and error budgets
• Lead incident management: on-call rotations, blameless postmortems, and systematically reducing MTTA/MTTR
• Drive infrastructure-as-code practices (Terraform, Ansible) and own CI/CD pipeline design
• Architect and operate Kubernetes clusters at scale — upgrades, autoscaling, cost optimization, multi-tenant workloads
• Own network architecture and security posture for cloud infrastructure (VPCs, load balancers, service mesh, zero-trust networking)
• Partner with product engineering teams to embed reliability and operational excellence into the software lifecycle
• Mentor and uplevel other platform engineers; set technical direction and engineering best practices
• Own capacity planning and cost optimization for cloud infrastructure

📌 Required Qualifications

• 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform engineering roles, including meaningful time operating at Staff/Lead level
• Deep, hands-on expertise running production Kubernetes at scale
• Strong AWS expertise (EC2, VPC, EKS, RDS, IAM, networking, security groups)
• Proven track record building observability stacks (OTel, Grafana, Telegraf, Influx or similar)
• Strong scripting/automation skills (Python, Go, or Bash)
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, Ansible)
• CI/CD pipeline design and ownership (Jenkins or similar)
• Solid networking fundamentals — TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, VPNs, service mesh
• Experience owning on-call/incident management and driving a strong postmortem culture
• Excellent communication skills — able to influence engineering decisions across teams without direct authority

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with multi-region or multi-cloud architectures
• Familiarity with cost optimization / FinOps practices
• Exposure to compliance-driven environments (SOC 2, GDPR)
• Prior experience at a SaaS or data infrastructure company