Compa
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StaffMulti-CloudPlatformEngineer
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“Staff Multi-Cloud Platform Engineer at Compa. Skills: Multi-cloud platforms, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as code, Platform engineering. Design core infrastructure. Build core infrastructure”
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8+ years software engineering experience, Emphasis on infrastructure and platform development, Deep, hands-on experience with managed Kubernetes, Python skills applied to infrastructure tooling, Hands-on experience designing and operating production systems across at least two of AWS, GCP, and Azure, Experience managing infrastructure across cloud boundaries, Comfortable with high ownership and ambiguity
Nice to Have
DevOps and SRE practices, Security fundamentals, Exposure to MLOps, Early-stage startup experience
What You'll Do.
Design core infrastructure
Build core infrastructure
Maintain core infrastructure
Own platform evolution
Lead platform engineering
Drive multi-cloud initiatives
Define platform standards
Scale infrastructure services
Automate infrastructure services
Automate internal tooling
Raise reliability bar
Raise observability bar
Design CI/CD pipelines
Improve CI/CD pipelines
Design deployment workflows
Improve deployment workflows
Design infrastructure automation
Improve infrastructure automation
Lead platform efforts
Reduce developer toil
Improve engineering velocity
Partner on technical direction
Partner on roadmap development
Set standards for engineers
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work with teammates; Partner with leadership
Full Job Description
ABOUT COMPA Compa is a venture-backed AI startup revolutionizing the future of compensation. In a dynamic job market with hiring challenges, accountability, and the rise of AI, companies need the best data to stay ahead of industry changes, competition, and costs. Compa has developed the premier real-time compensation data platform, delivering top-tier compensation intelligence to leading enterprise teams. Compa is a compensation intelligence company built to augment enterprise compensation teams in the era of AI. Our customers include the world’s biggest companies: NVIDIA, Stripe, DoorDash, Open AI, TMobile, Moderna, Workday, Ulta, Target, and more. Locations: Compa headquarters are located in Irvine, California, with growing sites in Denver, Colorado and San Francisco, California. We’re a collaborative, curious, and driven team that values transparency, ownership, and continuous learning and prioritizing in person work where possible. The role As a Staff Engineer on the Platform team, you'll own and lead platform engineering across our cloud, data, and AI/ML systems. Multi-cloud is central to what we're building, not a future initiative! You'll work closely with your teammates and engineering leadership to set direction, and build the foundation that lets every team at Compa move fast, strategically. This is a high-ownership individual contributor role where your decisions shape how the enterprise builds and ships. What you'll do - Design, build, and maintain core infrastructure across cloud, data, and AI/ML systems - Own and evolve Compa's Kubernetes-based platforms across AWS, GCP, and Azure - Drive multi-cloud initiatives including cloud abstraction patterns, cross-cloud identity, networking, data movement, traffic routing, and customer-managed encryption keys - Define platform standards for Kubernetes cluster architecture, workload isolation, tenancy, networking, security, scaling, upgrades, and operational ownership - Scale and automate infrastructure service
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