Arm
Staff Platform Engineer
$198K–$268K
Austin, Texas · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Experience
- No specific number of years stated; extensive cloud-services knowledge and relevant production and software engineering experience required.
About the job
Owns the design, delivery, and operation of scalable engineering platform services and self-service tools that improve developer productivity across Arm.
What you'll do
- Design, build, test, and operate APIs, platform services, Kubernetes operators, and automation.
- Deploy and manage reliable, secure workloads and cloud infrastructure; support production incidents and participate in the paid on-call rota.
- Lead technical initiatives and collaborate with engineering teams across Arm.
What they ask for
- Production workload experience on AWS or another major cloud platform.
- Strong software engineering experience in Go, Python, or similar languages, including API and backend service development.
- Practical Terraform and infrastructure-as-code knowledge; experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, and CI/CD.
- Knowledge of automated testing, code review, observability, secure development, and technical project leadership.
Nice to have
- Experience developing Kubernetes operators or controllers; knowledge of GitLab internals, administration, APIs, and integrations.
- Familiarity with software supply-chain security, SAST tooling, or Site Reliability Engineering and incident management.
Pay
$198,100-$268,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
AWS, Go, Python, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD
AI focus
AI is mentioned only as an optional aid for application preparation; it is not part of the job’s engineering work. AI may not be used to complete assigned assessment tasks.
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