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Platform Engineer

LHi Group Ltd
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 6/3/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/3/2026
Role: Platform Engineer

Location: SF Bay Area

Salary: $175,000 - $230,000

Industry: Technology

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Our client is a well-funded, early-stage infrastructure startup building developer tooling focused on simplifying data-intensive application architecture. Their open-source platform has seen rapid adoption across engineering organizations ranging from high-growth startups to enterprise environments in fintech, cloud infrastructure, and other technically complex industries.

Following several years of product development, the company has established strong product-market fit, a growing base of enterprise customers, and increasing demand for production deployments. They're now scaling the platform team responsible for customer infrastructure and deployment operations.

THE ROLE

As a Platform Engineer, you'll own the infrastructure that delivers the product to enterprise customers. The core of this work is a Bring-Your-Own-Cloud (BYOC) platform: a Kubernetes-based deployment system that runs inside customers' cloud environments. You'll build and operate it, work directly with customers from initial deployment through production support, and help define what the platform team looks like from the ground up.

This is not a role where you follow someone else's playbook. You'll make meaningful architectural decisions on infrastructure that supports enterprise customers at scale.

WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON

Build and maintain the BYOC platform using Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and cloud APIs

Own database operations within the platform including backups, replication, high availability, and recovery

Develop deployment, monitoring, and testing infrastructure around the core platform

Work directly with enterprise customers through rollout and ongoing production support

Build CI/CD pipelines for continuous benchmarking, testing, and releases

Contribute to technical documentation, product demos, and platform tooling

Help shape infrastructure and platform roadmap decisions

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Strong proficiency in Go

Deep production-level Kubernetes experience

Experience working on managed infrastructure, cloud platform, or database products

Strong distributed systems background including microservices, APIs, and gRPC

Knowledge of relational database operations including replication, WAL, backups, and HA setups

Experience with Terraform, Helm, Bash/Python, and CI/CD tooling

Prior experience deploying infrastructure directly into customer cloud environments

Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical decision-making clearly

WHY THIS ROLE

Join a company with strong product-market fit and growing enterprise demand

Flat structure with direct exposure to founders and technical leadership

Opportunity to solve complex infrastructure and distributed systems challenges

Work on an open-source product with an active and growing developer community

BENEFITS

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Competitive equity package

Salary : $175,000 - $230,000

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