K2 Space
Platform Engineer
$123K–$160K
Los Angeles, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles - Experience
- 2-5 years of experience building and operating distributed systems.
- Education
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a “U.S. person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.15 or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license.
About the job
Build and operate platform capabilities that support developer self-service, observability, and reliable software delivery across K2 Space’s engineering environments.
What you'll do
- Support Amazon EKS self-service features, including segmentation, namespace governance, workload scaling, multi-tenancy, and traffic management.
- Implement observability standards and provide documentation and diagnostics to help engineers understand connectivity and system behavior.
- Automate code deployment policies and support lifecycle practices such as versioning, safe migrations, deprecations, and resource cleanup.
What they ask for
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Proficiency in at least one of Go, TypeScript, Python, or C#, and disciplined source-control workflows.
- Working knowledge of CI/CD build pipelines with Github or Gitlab.
- Working knowledge of Amazon EKS and Datadog, Splunk, or OpenTelemetry.
Nice to have
- Experience with Kubernetes CRDs/operators, developer connectivity abstractions, guardrails, and automated tests.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, GitOps, progressive/canary rollouts, policy-as-code, or observability and SLOs.
Pay
$123,000 $160,000 USD base salary
Tools
Amazon EKS, Go, TypeScript, Python, C#, Github, Gitlab, Datadog
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