Platform Engineering Team Lead

Description

Firefly’s Cloud Infrastructure Automation Platform enables organizations to automate, manage, and govern their entire cloud footprint with IaC. Agile and efficient cloud practitioners use Firefly for its AI-assisted remediations, streamlined IaC orchestration, and a unified system of record for Cloud Asset Management. With Firefly, Platform and DevOps teams can finally uncomplicate their cloud, while accelerating cloud innovation and maintaining security and performance at scale.

At Firefly, we are looking for a talented Platform Engineer to join and lead our Platform team.

In this role, you’ll step into a rare early stage opportunity with a fast growing company. You’ll play a key role in the design, development, and technical leadership of our high-scale, cloud-native infrastructure - built on AWS, Kubernetes and managed with Terraform - with components written primarily in Go, leveraging Elastic, Prometheus, and more.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-impact platform engineering team focused on core cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and internal developer tooling.
• Lead and mentor a team of platform engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence.
• Own the design, development, and reliability of core infrastructure components.
• Drive the evolution of CI/CD processes, ensuring fast, secure, and reliable delivery pipelines.
• Champion observability standards and tooling to ensure system visibility and resilience.
• Collaborate closely with product, security, and development teams to support scalable, multi-tenant architecture and operational efficiency.
• Lead initiatives around infrastructure cost optimization, performance tuning, and high availability.
• Stay current with infrastructure trends and bring best practices into the team’s workflows.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in software/platform engineering, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership or management role.
• Proven experience working in a cloud-native environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure), ideally at a startup or high-growth company.
• Expertise in Kubernetes, containers, and microservice architecture.
• Deep understanding of observability tooling and practices, including Prometheus, Grafana, and Elastic (ELK stack).
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and internal developer tooling.
• Solid experience with distributed databases and data stores (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elastic).
• Familiarity with multi-tenant architectures, zero-downtime deployments, and cost-efficient infrastructure design.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills - comfortable working cross-functionally with product, engineering, and leadership teams.
• Security and compliance awareness in cloud environments.
• Background in operating high-availability systems or SaaS platforms.

Firefly is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Firefly is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or job applicant on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.