Platform Engineer

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🕒 May 20

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $125.2k - $181.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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QuantumScape

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2010

⚡ Energy

💰 $446M Post-IPO Equity on 2021-08

Energy • Transportation • Clean Tech

QuantumScape is on a mission to transform energy storage with solid-state lithium-metal battery technology. The company’s next-generation batteries are designed to enable greater energy density, faster charging, and enhanced safety to support the transition away from legacy energy sources toward a lower carbon future. QuantumScape has developed the industry’s first anode-less cell design, which delivers high energy density while lowering material costs and simplifying manufacturing. This innovative technology aims to improve the performance, safety, and efficiency of electric vehicles, moving towards a more sustainable transportation solution.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and operate the internal developer platform and self-service tooling that streamline delivery for engineering teams • Own CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation; improve build reliability, speed, and developer self-service • Run infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform) to provision, secure, and scale cloud and Kubernetes environments • Implement and operate observability: metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting; respond to incident and service requests • Harden platforms and manage risk: implement security baselines and vulnerability management (SecOps) and optimize cloud spend with cost guardrails and reporting (FinOps)

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years of professional experience • Cloud fundamentals (GCP/AWS/Azure) • strong foundation in Linux, containers, and basic knowledge of Kubernetes operations • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) • configuration management • Git and code review • CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.) • packaging, artifact, and release pipelines • Scripting/programming (i.e. Python, Bash) • troubleshooting across OS, network, and apps • Observability (monitoring, logging, tracing) • incident response/on-call and reliability practices • Security fundamentals (IAM, least privilege, vulnerability management, secrets) • FinOps awareness (cost optimization, budgeting/guardrails) • documentation and collaboration • Experience with the fundamentals of Agentic AI as it applies to Platform Engineering.

🏖️ Benefits

• employee paid health care • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) • annual bonus • generous RSU/Equity package