Morgan Stanley
Lead Platform Engineer - Parametric
$115K–$225K
Seattle, Washington +2 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, Washington
Boston, Massachusetts
Alpharetta, Georgia - Experience
- 8+ years of hands-on Platform Engineering experience and 8+ years of hands-on cloud-native architecture and platform support experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree required.
About the job
Leads platform engineering work that enables application teams to build and operate reliable, secure cloud-native software, improving developer experience, automation, and delivery workflows.
What you'll do
- Lead strategic platform initiatives, guide technical decisions, and develop engineering standards and practices.
- Design, build, and maintain highly available systems, automation, tooling, and workflows with application teams.
- Mentor team members, promote continuous learning, and provide tier 2 and 3 escalations.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- 8+ years of hands-on Platform Engineering (i.e., DevOps, SysOps, SRE) experience, with people and thought leadership.
- 8+ years of hands-on experience with cloud-native solution architectures and related platform support, such as Cyber Security, Infrastructure as Code (IAC), and Observability.
- Proven experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms; expertise in automation strategies for cloud-native solutions.
Nice to have
- Terraform experience is preferred.
- Experience using Gen AI tooling for software development and testing productivity.
Pay
$115,000 - $225,000 USD base salary
Tools
AWS, Azure, Terraform, GitHub, YAML, Kubernetes, Python, BASH
AI focus
Use Gen AI tooling to improve software development and testing productivity.
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