OpenHands

AI

SeniorPlatformEngineer

$175–225k Remote FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior Platform Engineer at OpenHands. Skills: Kubernetes, Cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure-as-code, PostgreSQL, Redis. Build and maintain self-hosted deployment product (installation, configuration, upgrades). Support customer POCs and self-hosted deployments”

What You'll Achieve.

Accelerate development; Automate workflows; Integrate intelligent coding assistance into real-world software delivery; Ensure successful rollouts in diverse environments; Execute on the platform roadmap

Industry & Context.

AI
Problems you'll solve

Debug complex cross-system issues

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

6+ years of professional software engineering experience, Deep experience with Kubernetes, Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure), Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.), Solid understanding of networking, Solid understanding of security, Operational experience with PostgreSQL, Operational experience with Redis, Track record of shipping reliable, production-grade platform or infrastructure systems

Nice to Have

Familiarity with authentication and identity systems (SSO, SAML, OIDC, RBAC), Experience with Replicated or similar embedded Kubernetes Installer platforms, Interest in AI/LLM-powered developer tools, Interest in open-source software, Contributed to OSS

What You'll Do.

Build and maintain self-hosted deployment product (installation

Support customer POCs and self-hosted deployments

production-grade code

Take features from design through to deployment

Own Cloud infrastructure running SaaS product

Debug complex cross-system issues

Deliver sustainable fixes

Contribute to infrastructure standards

Contribute to observability

Contribute to reliability practices

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate closely with teammates across Platform and the broader engineering team to execute on the platform roadmap; Code review; Knowledge sharing

Full Job Description

WHO WE ARE We’re building OpenHands, an open-source AI platform that empowers engineering teams to accelerate development, automate workflows, and integrate intelligent coding assistance into real-world software delivery. The Platform team is responsible for the infrastructure and systems that power OpenHands, including our self-hosted enterprise product. It's a small, senior team and you'll have real ownership over meaningful parts of the platform, working on hard problems in infrastructure, orchestration, and enterprise deployment. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Build and maintain our self-hosted deployment product: installation, configuration, and upgrades - Support customer POCs and self-hosted deployments, helping ensure successful rollouts in diverse environments - Write clean, well-tested, production-grade code and take features from design through to deployment - Own the Cloud infrastructure running our SaaS product - Debug complex cross-system issues and deliver sustainable fixes - Collaborate closely with teammates across Platform and the broader engineering team to execute on the platform roadmap - Contribute to infrastructure standards, observability, and reliability practices - Help grow a strong engineering culture through code review, documentation, and knowledge sharing WHAT YOU BRING - 6+ years of professional software engineering experience - Deep experience with Kubernetes and Helm; these are core to how we build and operate OpenHands - Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.) - Solid understanding of networking, security, and operational experience with PostgreSQL and Redis - Familiarity with authentication and identity systems (SSO, SAML, OIDC, RBAC) is a plus - Experience with Replicated or similar embedded Kubernetes Installer platforms is a plus - Track record of shipping reliable, production-grade platform or infrastructure systems - Interest in AI/LLM-powered developer tools and open-s

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