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Platform Engineering Lead

Rumble
Washington, DC Full Time
POSTED ON 4/9/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/7/2026
Rumble is the Freedom-First technology platform. We proudly offer a video platform, cloud services, advertising solutions, and a non-custodial cryptocurrency wallet.

Platform Engineering Lead builds and operates Rumble’s Internal Developer Platform (IDP) as an internal product that abstracts infrastructure complexity, standardizes golden paths,

and accelerates developer velocity while supporting both DevOps and SRE practices

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the Platform Engineering Team.
  • Design, deliver, and continuously evolve the self-service IDP: CI/CD golden paths, IaC templates (Terraform/Ansible), Kubernetes abstractions, pre-configured environments, monitoring


integrations, code repository environment and cloud-resource abstractions for Rumble Cloud.

  • Treat the IDP as a product: run user interviews with Development and Production Ops squads, maintain a public roadmap, and measure success by developer velocity metrics (e.g.,


deployment frequency, lead time).

  • Embed secure development hygiene, AI-augmented workflows (with mandatory Human-in-theLoop), and Behavior-Driven Development practices into the platform tools.
  • Collaborate with the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team so the IDP itself is reliable in production (shared ownership model: Platform owns design & evolution; Site Reliability


Engineering (SRE) owns runtime reliability).

  • Eliminate toil and duplication across products so cross-functional squads can self-serve deployments, scaling, and observability without reinventing infrastructure.
  • Apply Theory of Constraints (TOC) to platform adoption bottlenecks and drive quarterly governance reviews with the Platform Steering Committee.


Required Qualifications

  • Strong demonstrable experience building internal platforms or developer-experience tools at


scale.

  • Strong background in Kubernetes, GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, and self-service portals.
  • Product-management mindset (roadmap ownership, customer feedback loops).
  • Experience integrating AI tools into engineering workflows while preserving human oversight.
  • Familiarity with secure development hygiene (NIST 800-218).
  • Cloud-native and automation-first engineering culture.
  • Strong leadership


Annual Compensation Range:

$125,000 - $155,000 USD base benefits equity

Note: The salary range listed for this position is a good faith estimate based on experience, qualifications, and internal compensation structure.

The actual salary offered varies depending on the candidate's skill level and experience.

This posting refers to an active vacancy within the organization.

Why Our Team Loves Working Here:

  • We are making a significant financial impact for our video creator community; we’re proud of their success stories
  • We enjoy challenging the status quo and going head-to-head against Big Tech
  • We aren’t afraid to try new things; we act fast and want to win
  • We pay competitive salaries and provide great benefits


EEO Statement:

Rumble is an equal opportunity employer.  We promote an equal playing field where everyone has the same opportunities regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Rumble is an active participant in the e-verify program.

Physical demands of the position:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for prolonged periods of time while using a computer and/or keyboard. The employee is required to communicate verbally and hear. The employee may be required to walk, reach with hands and arms, balance, and stoop or kneel. The employee may occasionally be required to lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include clarity of vision at approximately 20 inches or less (i.e., working with small objects or reading small print), including the use of computers.

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