Senior Platform Engineer (DevX)

<div class="content-intro"><p data-renderer-start-pos="41">K2 is building the largest and highest-power satellites ever flown, unlocking performance levels previously out of reach across every orbit. Backed by over $1 billion in total funding from leading investors including Altimeter Capital, ICONIQ, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and T. Rowe Price — and with over $1 billion in signed contracts across commercial and US government customers, we're mass-producing the highest-power satellite platforms ever built for missions from LEO to deep space.</p>

<p data-renderer-start-pos="570">The rise of heavy-lift launch vehicles is shifting the industry from an era of mass constraint to one of mass abundance, and we believe this new era demands a fundamentally different class of spacecraft. Engineered to survive the harshest radiation environments and to fully capitalize on today's and tomorrow's massive rockets, K2 satellites deliver unmatched capability at constellation scale and across multiple orbits.</p>

<p data-renderer-start-pos="994">With multiple launches in 2027 and plans to scale to 100 satellites a year, we're Building Bigger — helping develop the solar system and build toward a Kardashev Type II (K2) civilization. If you are a motivated individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and you're excited about contributing to the success of a high-growth Series D-funded company, we'd love for you to apply.</p></div><p><strong><span data-contrast="none">The Role</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":240}"> </span></p>

<p><span data-contrast="none">Our enterprise software team builds the digital backbone that powers K2 Space’s ($1B raised to date) satellite design, manufacturing, and mission operations. We develop tools that connect engineering, production, and mission control into a seamless ecosystem — enabling our hardware to get from concept to orbit faster than ever before.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></p>

<p><span data-contrast="none">As we continue to grow, we’re looking for </span><span data-contrast="auto">a Senior Platform Engineer on our Enterprise Information Systems team, you must possess strong technical skills and a sense of empathy for your fellow engineers. You will work closely with other talented engineers, architects and senior stakeholders to design, implement, and deliver on our roadmap.</span> <br> <br><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Our Ideal Candidate</span></strong></p>

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<li><span data-contrast="auto">Distills application development best practices into repeatable low friction patterns to enable users from multiple backgrounds to build high-quality applications and services</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}"> </span></li>

<li><span data-contrast="auto">Practices surgical precision in feature development, delivering high value while avoiding complexity that delays or bloats</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}"> </span></li>

<li><span data-contrast="auto">Delivers work with excellence including readable code, automated tests, clear documentation, consistent maintenance, and polished observability</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}"> </span></li>

<li><span data-contrast="auto">Intuitively understands manufacturing domain functionality, service identity, and secure communication with a keen ability to simplify them</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}"> </span></li>

<li><span data-contrast="auto">Understands the importance of resilience and reliability in production operations and upgrades</span> <br><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}"> </span></li>

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<p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Responsibilities </span></strong></p>

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<li><span data-contrast="auto">Build consistent application patterns to deploy to Amazon EKS enabling both AI-assisted general application development and specialized application development work </span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}"> </span></li>

<li><span data-contrast="auto">Promoting AI adoption in a secure and consistent model while supporting AI operational needs.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}"> </span></li>

<li><span data-contrast="auto">Establishing AI guardrails, observability and governance within the context of software development ensuring AI assisted application development will be secured with industry best practices</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}"> </span></li>

<li><span data-contrast="auto">Build guard rails and out-of-the-box platform functionalities for golden path deployment model and accelerate applications go-live with low friction tooling</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}"> </span></li>

<li><span data-contrast="auto">Lead long term developer experience road map incorporating capabilities from multiple disciplines within software industry</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}"> </span></li>

<li><span data-contrast="auto">Engineer resilient traffic paths (timeouts, retries, circuit breaking, failure isolation) and harden them via chaos tests, automated remediation, and MTTR reduction</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}"> </span></li>

<li><span data-contrast="auto">Incorporate observability services for end‑to‑end application monitoring and alerting</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}"> </span></li>

<li><span data-contrast="auto">Provide approachable docs & diagnostics (guides, diagrams, ‘why can’t this connect?’ flows) to shorten support loops</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}"> </span></li>

<li><span data-contrast="auto">Optimize performance & cost (latency budgets, cross‑AZ transfer, IP consumption, LB efficiency) and act on anomalies</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}"> </span></li>

<li><span data-contrast="auto">Steward code lifecycle and adoption including versioning, safe migrations, deprecations, usage telemetry, and proactive pruning of unused resources</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}"> </span></li>

<li><span data-contrast="auto">Mentor engineers and partner with adjacent teams to embed application abstractions into golden paths, raising organizational fluency and consistency in software engineering</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}"> </span></li>

<li><span data-contrast="auto">Build automated policies and processes to ensure good code deployment practices, code hygiene, good code test practices</span> <br><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}"> </span></li>

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<p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Qualifications</span></strong></p>

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<li><span data-contrast="auto">8+ years of experience building developer tooling and deployment patterns</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}"> </span></li>

<li><span data-contrast="auto">Comfortable with performing PoC to evaluate new technology: AI Platform, AI models, introducing new developer experience products.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}"> </span></li>

<li><span data-contrast="auto">Proficiency in at least one language (Go, TypeScript, Python, C#) and disciplined SCM workflows (branching, reviews, automated gates)</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}"> </span></li>

<li><span data-contrast="auto">Deep working knowledge architecture knowledge of designing, developing and deploying application to Amazon EKS</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}"> </span></li>

<li><span data-contrast="auto">Deep working knowledge of CI/CD build pipeline with Github or Gitlab</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}"> </span></li>

<li><span data-contrast="auto">Competence leveraging observability & SLOs (metrics, tracing, structured logs, L4/L7 telemetry, end‑to‑end request path, visibility into applied policies, SLI/SLO definition & enforcement)</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}"> </span></li>

<li><span data-contrast="auto">Experience with using Terraform or CDK, GitOps (GH Actions, Gitlab CI), progressiv