Coder
AI software development
PlatformEngineeringLead
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“Platform Engineering Lead at Coder. Skills: Platform Engineering, DevOps, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code. Lead architectural and technical decisions. Deliver a cutting-edge developer platform”
What You'll Achieve.
Delivering a cutting-edge developer platform loved by customers; Improve productivity; Cut cloud costs; Reduce data risks
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years in infrastructure and platform engineering, at least 3 years leading teams, Proven record of shipping software to large enterprise customers, Experience contributing to or leading open source projects, Linux, Kubernetes & containers, At least one major public cloud (e. g. AWS, GCP, or Azure), IP networking & HTTP fundamentals, Infrastructure as Code
Nice to Have
Significant professional experience with our tech stack, Prior work on developer tooling, Public open source contributions, You still carve out time to code, either at work or on passion projects
What You'll Do.
Lead architectural and technical decisions
Deliver a cutting-edge developer platform
Set standards and upgrade infrastructure
Mature platform artifacts
and expand infrastructure
Drive architecture decisions
Support internal infrastructure
Translate product vision
Train and uplift teams
Hold a high bar for code quality
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work with product team; Train and uplift engineering and field teams
Full Job Description
As the Platform Engineering Lead at Coder, you will lead architectural and technical decisions related to platform engineering and internal DevOps. You unblock, uplift, and focus on the problems that matter - delivering a cutting-edge developer platform loved by customers. You will be the founding member of a new team dedicated to platform engineering and internal DevOps. We are looking for a lead who will get hands-on and contribute while also helping to set standards and upgrade existing infrastructure. Coder’s main software platform is a self-hosted deployable, in which Coder providers reference architecture, Helm charts, Terraform providers, and more. You will be directly responsible for helping to mature these artifacts. Coder also has a number of lightweight external infrastructure and internal development infrastructure which you will help to maintain, guide, and expand. Until now, Software Engineers have been maintaining and handling all internal DevOps work. What you’ll do here - Drive architecture decisions related to infrastructure and deployments - Support internal infrastructure for engineering - Translate product vision into clear technical roadmaps; drive execution end‑to‑end - Train and uplift engineering and field teams on infrastructure-related work - Hold a high bar for code quality, security, and performance; instill best practices What we’re looking for - 7+ years in infrastructure and platform engineering, with at least 3 years leading teams - Proven record of shipping software to large enterprise customers - Experience contributing to or leading open source projects Deep technical foundation in - Linux - Kubernetes & containers - At least one major public cloud (e.g. AWS, GCP, or Azure) - IP networking & HTTP fundamentals - Infrastructure as Code Our tech stack - Backend: Go, Postgres, GCP, Kubernetes, gRPC - Frontend: Typescript, React, Vite - IDE Extensions: Typescript, Kotlin - Observability: Prometheus, Grafana - CI/CD: GitHub Actions - Ge
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