Senior Platform Engineer

US - Remotefull timeRemote

senior

$160k–$178k

H1B: yes

Lob The Senior Platform Engineer at Lob focuses on scaling and improving the reliability, observability, performance, and cost efficiency of platform infrastructure. This role involves working with AWS environments and tools like Datadog, OpenTelemetry, and HashiCorp Nomad.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help scale and improve the reliability, observability, performance, and cost efficiency of our platform infrastructure.
This role is focused on observability engineering and infrastructure optimization across AWS environments. The ideal candidate has deep hands-on experience with Datadog, OpenTelemetry, and HashiCorp Nomad, and understands how to build highly visible, scalable, and operationally efficient systems while actively reducing unnecessary infrastructure spend.
Building and improving observability across distributed systems and services
Designing dashboards, alerting, metrics, tracing, and telemetry pipelines
Improving operational visibility using Datadog, and OpenTelemetry
Helping evolve and mature the organization’s observability strategy and tooling
Supporting and improving HashiCorp Nomad orchestration environments
Identifying and implementing AWS cost-saving opportunities across compute, storage, and platform infrastructure
Improving infrastructure utilization and operational efficiency across Nomad workloads
Optimizing S3 storage utilization, lifecycle management, and storage costs
Designing and maintaining performance testing environments and tooling
Running load and performance tests to identify bottlenecks and scalability issues

Qualification

Deep expertise with DatadogExperience building dashboardsStrong knowledge of S3 optimizationExperience with KubernetesExperience with Go

Required

7+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or site reliability engineering
Strong hands-on experience with HashiCorp Nomad
Deep expertise with Datadog
Strong experience implementing and operating observability platforms using OpenTelemetry and modern monitoring tooling
Experience with Grafana or similar visualization and observability platforms
Strong understanding of distributed tracing, metrics, logging, and monitoring best practices
Experience building dashboards, alerts, telemetry pipelines, and operational visibility tooling
Strong experience identifying and implementing AWS cost optimization strategies in production environments
Strong knowledge of S3 optimization, lifecycle management, and storage cost reduction
Experience building and running performance/load testing environments
Strong troubleshooting and performance analysis skills across distributed systems
Strong experience operating infrastructure in AWS environments

Preferred

Exposure to PostgreSQL RDS to Aurora migrations
Experience with Kubernetes
Experience with CI/CD systems and deployment automation
Experience with Go, Python, or TypeScript
Since great engineers come from a variety of backgrounds, it doesn’t particularly matter if you have a specific degree—we want to hear about your contributions in a real-world setting.