Top Platform Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Design, build, and operate the companys multi-cloud foundational infrastructure and self-service developer platform. Author reusable IaC (Terraform), implement cross-cloud networking and CI/CD standards, ensure compliance with government security requirements, mentor junior engineers, and drive platform-level tooling and adoption to scale secure software delivery across the enterprise.

Design, build, and operate enterprise-scale multi-cloud infrastructure (Azure primary, GCP, AWS exposure). Own landing zones, Terraform modules, production AKS/GKE Kubernetes, Vault secrets, hybrid networking, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, DR, and automation (Ansible, Python/Bash). Mentor engineers, document runbooks, and collaborate with security, application teams, and leadership to ensure secure, reliable, cost-optimized cloud platforms.

The Platform Engineer will design and implement scalable compute infrastructure for autonomous vehicle simulation, utilizing cloud platforms and on-premises clusters, along with managing CI/CD pipelines and monitoring systems.

The role involves enhancing developer productivity by improving CI/CD, automated testing, and integrating AI-based tools, focusing on operational excellence and collaboration with teams.

Build and maintain core backend services, APIs, and scalable data pipelines for time-series energy data. Improve ingestion, processing, storage, observability, and platform reliability while contributing to architecture and customer-facing iterations.

Lead enterprise cloud architecture across AWS and Azure, design scalable multi-cloud networking and IaC (Terraform) at scale, drive large migrations, mentor engineers, support HIPAA/HITRUST compliance, and own major infrastructure initiatives and incident response.

Design and build platform systems that enhance software shipping speed and confidence, collaborating across engineering teams to improve existing infrastructures and workflows.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design best practices for AI Agents, develop standards, collaborate on product opportunities, and stay updated on emerging Agent techniques.

Own and operate the Workday platform across HCM, Payroll, Recruiting, Prism, and Illuminate. Configure modules, build reports and integrations (EIB, Studio, APIs, RaaS), manage security models, tenant lifecycle, release readiness, analytics, automation, and compliance while partnering with HR, Payroll, Finance, and IT stakeholders.

Lead and mentor the platform engineering team to design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure and tools. Collaborate with product and engineering leadership on technical roadmaps, implement Dev(Sec)Ops best practices (CI/CD, PR reviews, cloud platform management), debug complex issues, and drive hiring and process improvements to support web application infrastructure at scale.

Lead backend platform engineering for a centralized SAP Commerce backend: build and maintain custom extensions, integrate with ERP/PIM/CRM via middleware, diagnose production issues using Commerce Cloud and Dynatrace, design OCC/headless APIs, and raise team capability through reviews and documentation.

This role involves overseeing the DevOps and infrastructure layer, managing multi-cloud resources, ensuring pipeline reliability, and implementing financial governance and compliance measures while leveraging AI tools for improvements.

Lead technical vision and implement high-impact Ruby on Rails solutions for an internal demo platform. Improve reliability, observability, instrumentation, and integrations; partner with Product, Sales, and cross-functional teams; mentor engineers and drive architecture, testing, and engineering best practices.

Design, implement, govern, and support enterprise Microsoft Power Platform solutions. Own platform architecture, ALM, environment and DLP policies, CoE governance, and integrations with Microsoft 365, Azure, and third-party systems. Build Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot-driven solutions using Dataverse, implement CI/CD pipelines, monitor reliability, troubleshoot production issues, and enable citizen developers while enforcing security and compliance.

Design, automate, and maintain cloud platform infrastructure and release processes. Implement and monitor observability, networking, security/patching, and container orchestration (EKS/Istio). Use Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, shell scripting, and Python to build reliable, compliant AWS-based systems and collaborate in Agile teams.

Design, implement, administer, and optimize large-scale Hadoop clusters (HDFS, YARN, MapReduce). Monitor, secure, troubleshoot, automate provisioning, and implement backup/disaster recovery. Collaborate with data engineers/scientists, implement ETL/streaming pipelines, and document configurations and best practices.

Design, implement, and manage large-scale GCP infrastructure using IaC (Terraform), containerization (Kubernetes/Docker), monitoring, security, and DR. Mentor junior engineers, optimize performance and costs, and document practices.

Design, build, and maintain IaC and automation for AWS using Terraform and Go. Manage Kubernetes deployments, implement CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and troubleshooting to ensure scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure.

As a Staff Application Platform Engineer, you will enhance developer productivity, design scalable systems, ensure security, and collaborate cross-functionally on projects from ideation to deployment.

Design, build, and operate secure CI/CD pipelines and platform services for classified and unclassified environments. Develop AI-assisted tooling, integrate security scanning and supply-chain controls, deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters and shared services (Harbor, Nexus, Vault, ArgoCD), implement IaC (Terraform/Ansible), and support AI/ML infrastructure. Troubleshoot builds, enforce compliance (cATO/RMF), and produce operational runbooks while supporting multiple concurrent federal and DoD projects.

Own and manage the Microsoft platform: administer Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune, endpoint management and enterprise patching. Lead Defender/security/compliance efforts, automate with PowerShell, and provide Tier 3 support while collaborating with Infrastructure, InfoSec, Enterprise Apps, and Service Desk.

Design, build, and operate a scalable demo environment platform. Implement IaC and automation, CI/CD, container orchestration, and observability. Create golden templates, seed data, access controls, and tooling to support Sales Engineering and internal users while ensuring reliability and security.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Coinbase's Blockchain Platform, overseeing nodes, indexers, wallets, and asset lifecycle. Drive cross-team platform rearchitectures, enforce security and reliability standards, champion AI-driven automation, use observability to improve reliability, and represent the platform to executives to secure alignment and resources for large-scale blockchain infrastructure initiatives.

Lead design and implementation of Affirm's Lakehouse Platform using Iceberg, Spark, Snowflake, and cloud storage. Drive platform roadmap, governance, access controls, performance and cost optimization, analytics engineering best practices, observability, and on-call readiness. Partner cross-functionally, mentor engineers, and build scalable, secure, self-service data infrastructure and semantic/agentic data tools.

As a founding Staff Platform Engineer, you will architect and build core platform components, design and implement scalable distributed backend systems, drive CI/CD and testing practices, collaborate closely with the CEO/CTO, work in an Agile environment, and help deliver reliable fintech products.