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Highspot

Location:
United States, Seattle

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

188696.00 - 282609.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

As Highspot continues to scale rapidly, building a robust and efficient platform is critical to our success. We're looking for an experienced engineer to lead the design, development, and evolution of our cloud-based infrastructure and developer platform. This role focuses on enabling product teams through well-designed, scalable, and secure platform capabilities. You’ll be responsible for abstracting away cloud complexity, improving developer workflows, and driving the adoption of modern infrastructure practices. You have deep experience with public clouds (AWS and/or Azure), are an expert in Kubernetes, and have a strong understanding of how to build self-service infrastructure that balances speed with safety.

Job Responsibility:

Design and build scalable platform capabilities that empower engineering teams to ship features reliably, securely, and quickly
Create and maintain developer-facing tools and paved paths (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes platforms, observability stacks, secrets management)
Implement Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps patterns to promote consistency, automation, and compliance across environments
Collaborate with product, security, and compliance stakeholders to build platform services that meet SLAs and governance standards
Drive efforts to standardize and simplify infrastructure across cloud environments (AWS, Azure), enabling secure multi-cloud operation
Lead incident response, reliability engineering, and observability improvements that ensure platform uptime and performance
Act as a technical mentor and thought leader, guiding teams on infrastructure architecture, platform adoption, and best practices
Define and execute on a strategic roadmap to evolve the internal platform in line with company growth and technology direction

Requirements:

15+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering
At least 5 years focused on platform engineering or cloud infrastructure at scale
Proven success designing and operating internal developer platforms in AWS environments
Expert-level experience with Kubernetes, including provisioning, cluster lifecycle management, workload orchestration, and multi-tenant design
Strong expertise in Terraform, GitOps tools (e.g., ArgoCD), and CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Spinnaker)
Deep understanding of cloud networking, IAM, service meshes, and container orchestration at scale
Familiar with the CNCF landscape and how to leverage open-source tools to solve platform problems
Passion for developer experience
Track record of technical leadership, mentoring, and influencing engineering culture at a large scale
Bachelor's or Master’s in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have:

Experience designing and operating Developer Platforms or building platform-as-a-service abstractions
Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments and associated design trade-offs
Strong cost optimization and cloud governance expertise

What we offer:

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life benefits
Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
401(k) Matching with immediate vesting on employer match
Flexible PTO
8 paid holidays and 5 paid days for Annual Holiday Week
Quarterly Recharge Fridays (paid days off for mental health recharge)
18 weeks paid parental leave
Access to Coaches and Therapists through Modern Health
2 volunteer days per year
Commuting benefits

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 09, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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