Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

🕒 July 20

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $125k - $174.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

☁️ Cloud Engineer

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Coupa Software

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2006

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏥 Healthcare

Consulting • Logistics • Healthcare

Coupa Software is a leading provider of business spend management solutions. Their platform focuses on optimizing and transforming direct and indirect spend across procurement, finance, supply chain, and IT. Coupa leverages AI and extensive data insights to drive cost efficiencies, manage supplier relationships, and mitigate risks. With products covering areas such as invoicing, payments, expense management, and supply chain collaboration, Coupa serves a wide range of industries including automotive, healthcare, retail, and more. Their comprehensive community and partner ecosystem enable organizations to unlock hidden savings and improve compliance, promoting growth and resilience in a changing economic climate.

📋 Description

• Architect, manage, and scale our enterprise Kubernetes infrastructure (EKS/GKE) to ensure high availability and performance across a large fleet of clusters. • Oversee automated continuous platform optimization, shifting away from manual tuning and human toil to scalable, automated resource management systems. • Implement and manage intelligent resource automation platforms to automate workload sizing, placement, and Karpenter configurations by default. • Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, FinOps, and Finance teams to drive sustainable cost avoidance and alignment, moving beyond retroactive cost savings. • Design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and deep observability tools for the Kubernetes ecosystem. • Mentor engineers and lead architectural initiatives to improve platform resilience, security, and operational excellence.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience as a Platform Engineer, Cloud Engineer, or SRE managing Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) at massive enterprise scale. • Hands-on experience with intelligent resource automation platforms (e.g., ScaleOps) and automated scaling tools like Karpenter. • Strong understanding of FinOps principles and experience driving cost avoidance strategies in a dynamic cloud-native environment. • Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, OpenTofu) and configuration management. • Deep expertise in AWS/GCP cloud services, containerization technologies, and managing large compute footprints. • Excellent cross-functional communication skills with a track record of aligning technical objectives with business and financial goals.