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Glide is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Infrastructure team to help evolve our platform, become more efficient with our infrastructure utilization as we scale, and achieve a high level of operational excellence for availability, security, and performance. We’re building a simpler, faster way for anyone to build custom software for their business, without any technical or design skills.

Job Responsibility:

Managing our existing infrastructure in GCP
Driving our platform evolution as the complexity and sophistication of our product only increases
Managing our Github/GH Actions based build pipeline
Provide build, test, and runtime infrastructure to service teams
Ensure patterns are established (e.g., for database throttling, request rate limiting, etc…) to protect Glide’s uptime
Monitor infrastructure costs and coordinate improvements when necessary
Drive SRE tooling and best practices around observability and alerting
Write, review, and maintain code primarily in TypeScript
Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve reliable scale with our systems
Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code review to encourage the growth of others

Requirements:

5+ years of experience as a platform engineer/SRE
3+ years experience building and maintaining highly available and scalable distributed data sources
Experience with Google Cloud Platform services like Cloud SQL, Cloud Run, AlloyDB, or equivalent
Experience orchestrating complex systems with Kubernetes
Proficiency in TypeScript development
Strong SQL skills
can speak to covering index optimization strategies
Experience designing, building and running data-intensive event-driven architectures
You are a clear and effective communicator, be it when you write code, write emails, or explain complex technical issues to non-technical co-workers
Passionate and self-motivated, with a demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced and evolving environment

Nice to have:

Experience with Firestore
Scaled an event-driven architecture using Cloud Pub/Sub, AWS SQS/SNS, or other eventing system
Familiarity with telemetry and monitoring solutions like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Google Cloud Logging

What we offer:

competitive salary and benefits package
a supportive and dynamic remote work environment
opportunities for career growth

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Job Posted:
December 08, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Remote work

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