Senior Platform Infrastructure Software Engineer

Job not on LinkedIn

🕒 September 11

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $84.6k - $155.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

Where this job comes from

Posted on Alkira's careers page, not through a job board

First seen by Remote Rocketship September 11

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Alkira

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🏠 Real Estate

💼 Consulting

Real Estate • Consulting

Alkira is a Dubai-based private real estate advisory and luxury brokerage focused on Dubai's ultra-prime residential and commercial market. The firm positions itself as a discreet, high-touch custodian for high-net-worth and institutional clients, offering services including property acquisition and disposal (off-market and listed), leasing, valuation, marketing, and investment advisory (including mortgage modelling and financial analysis). Alkira emphasizes exclusivity, off-market access, regulatory accreditation (RERA, Dubai Land Department), and a data-driven, client-confidential approach to securing landmark residences and commercial assets across Dubai's established districts.

📋 Description

• Own the global Kubernetes cluster footprint across regions and cloud providers, including provisioning, upgrades, multi-tenancy, resource and network policy, and failure isolation • Own the internal cluster running CI/CD runners and build platforms, including capacity, isolation, scaling, and build performance • Own shared infrastructure such as managed databases, object storage buckets, container registries, and build platforms • Own provisioning paths, access models, costs, and the full lifecycle of shared platform services including internal PKI, vaults, and Kubernetes operators • Own platform disaster recovery, including backup and restore, replication and failover design, documented RTO/RPO targets, and regular DR exercises • Design and publish reusable Terraform/OpenTofu modules for other teams • Own the observability stack and set instrumentation standards • Build production tooling in Go or Python • Own complex projects, drive architectural decisions, and set engineering standards • Mentor engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance • Reduce costs and eliminate infrastructure drift • Participate in the Platform Infrastructure on-call rotation

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field • 5+ years of professional experience in infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or SRE engineering, including production ownership • Deep production Kubernetes experience operating clusters • Strong Terraform or OpenTofu experience at scale, including module design, state management, and policy-as-code • Strong programming ability in Go, Python, or a comparable language • Experience running stateful shared services or infrastructure in production, such as message brokers, databases, or certificate authorities • Deep Linux fundamentals, including process and resource behavior and system-level debugging under load • Understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, load balancing, and service-to-service communication • Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider and ability to work across others • Sound judgment about blast radius and reversible risky changes • Strong technical judgment, problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills • Must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer-sponsored visa • Successful candidates may undergo background screening

🏖️ Benefits

• Base salary range of $84,629-$155,152 USD • Equal employment opportunities • Background screening evaluated on a case-by-case basis • Supportive, connected culture with clear expectations, trust, shared accountability, and collaboration • Lumen 8 behaviors guiding workplace interactions and decisions

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