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The Motley Fool · 3 days ago

Senior Platform Engineer

Washington, DC

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$160K/yr - $190K/yr

7+ years exp

The Motley Fool is a purpose-driven financial services company on a mission to make the world smarter, happier, and richer. They are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable systems and infrastructure, focusing on building and managing AWS cloud infrastructure and supporting services.

ConsultingFinancial ServicesMarketingNewsPublishing

Work & Life Balance

No H1B

Responsibilities

40% modernizing and enhancing our platform end to end, from CDN to Kubernetes and everything in between

30% collaborating with development teams to troubleshoot issues and improve performance for our Next.js and Django based applications

20% accelerating our CI/CD processes to reduce time-to-market for stakeholders

10% optimizing infrastructure and application costs

Qualification

AWSKubernetesTerraformNext.jsDjangoAutomationDeveloper experienceObservabilityMentoringProblem-solving

Required

7+ years of experience in platform engineering within a product-focused company

Startup experience: You understand the challenges that come with scaling and maturing a platform

Hands-on experience running self-hosted Next.js and Django applications on Kubernetes

A focus on developer experience, including improving local development workflows and mentoring team members

Strong background in automation and observability, including managing code lifecycle from development to production and using tools like CloudWatch and Datadog to optimize performance across environments

Advanced Terraform skills for building reproducible, scalable environments, including AWS-hosted applications, event-driven systems, containerized services on Kubernetes, and serverless functions