What does a Successful Platform Engineer do at Clover?
A successful Platform Engineer at Clover architects the invisible infrastructure that powers millions of daily transactions for merchants worldwide. You'll design and build the Kubernetes foundation that enables our engineering teams to innovate rapidly and deploy confidently. Your technical decisions directly impact how quickly new features reach small businesses, creating scalable solutions that transform how merchants operate and grow their businesses.
About The Team
Cloud Platform team builds the Kubernetes based microservice platform that application teams rely on to operate their critical services. We enable Clover engineering to ship features quickly and safely to our customers through large scale, fault tolerant, distributed systems.
What You Will Do
Design and implement our cloud-based service platform
Make architectural decisions around our Kubernetes ecosystem
Work with developers to incorporate feedback and evolve the platform
Help teammates grow through better processes and technical guidance
Scale systems through automation to improve reliability and velocity
Evaluate and implement new technological solutions
Participate in on-call rotation and conduct blameless postmortems
What You Will Need To Have
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
8+ years of industry experience
Production experience with Kubernetes, service meshes, and related tooling
Experience building and maintaining large scale platforms
Aptitude for diagnosing technical issues and automating routine tasks
Fundamental understanding of networking concepts
Experience with major cloud providers such as AWS, GCP or Azure
Knowledge of observability tools
Experience with various database technologies
What Would Be Great To Have
Modern programming languages
Multi-threading and concurrency
OpenAPI and Protobuf
Nginx and Envoy
Redis and Memcache
Kubernetes CRDs and Operators
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