K2 Space
Senior Platform Engineer (DevX)
$165K–$200K
Los Angeles, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 8, 2026
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles - Experience
- 8+ years building developer tooling and deployment patterns.
- 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 maintain developer-platform capabilities and deployment patterns that help teams securely develop, deploy, observe, and operate applications on Amazon EKS, including AI-assisted development.
What you'll do
- Create golden-path deployment patterns, guardrails, and low-friction tooling for applications on Amazon EKS.
- Promote secure AI adoption with governance, observability, and operational support for AI-assisted development.
- Improve platform reliability, monitoring, performance, documentation, and developer experience; mentor engineers and guide the roadmap.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of experience building developer tooling and deployment patterns.
- Proficiency in at least one of Go, TypeScript, Python, or C#, and disciplined source-control workflows.
- Deep working knowledge of designing, developing, and deploying applications to Amazon EKS, and of CI/CD pipelines with Github or Gitlab.
- Experience with observability and SLOs, Terraform or CDK, GitOps, progressive/canary rollouts, policy-as-code, and AI-assisted development.
Nice to have
- Comfort evaluating new technologies through proofs of concept, including AI platforms, AI models, and developer-experience products.
Pay
USD $165,000 - $200,000 base salary
Tools
Amazon EKS, Go, TypeScript, Python, C#, Github, Gitlab, Terraform
AI focus
Promote secure AI adoption, establish AI guardrails and governance, support AI operations, and enable AI-assisted application development.
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