Platform Engineer

Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. Our growing community of over 6500 organizations in regulated industries counts on Smarsh every day to help them spot compliance, legal or reputational risks in 80+ communication channels before those risks become regulatory fines or headlines. Relentless innovation has fueled our journey to consistent leadership recognition from analysts like Gartner and Forrester, and our sustained, aggressive growth has landed Smarsh in the annual Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing American companies since 2008.

We are seeking a passionate, strategic problem-solver to join our Fabric Engineering group as a Senior Platform Engineer. In this role, you will make a strategic impact across multiple teams and technologies both as an individual contributor and by growing other Engineers. You will play a key part in shaping the future of our global Kubernetes platform by providing hands-on technical expertise to design, deploy, and optimise our infrastructure in a secure and cost-effective way. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of Cloud Native technologies as well as the ability to deliver complex Platform Engineering initiatives from inception through to global rollout.

About Enterprise Archive

The Fabric Cloud Runtime team are primarily responsible for our Kubernetes infrastructure in AWS, delivering the foundational platform that underpins our applications. Our mission is to accelerate Developer innovation by empowering teams with intelligent, scalable, self-service tools, enabling them to build the future without being constrained by infrastructure complexity. In this role, you will play a key part in shaping the future of our API-first platform by providing hands-on technical expertise to design, deploy, and optimize our infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, build and operate production-grade infrastructure in AWS.
• Be an individual contributor to our platform codebase, raising the bar in terms of quality, security, and reliability. Create documentation and debug complex distributed systems.
• Deliver robust pipelines to safely manage infrastructure at scale and automate workflows.
• Operational excellence – respond to incidents and participate in an 24 / 7 365 Engineering on-call rotation.
• Collaborate with Application Engineering teams to champion best practices, improve onboarding and accelerate delivery. Influence the technical roadmap across Engineering, to deliver high impact outcomes.
• Mentor junior Engineers, to actively support their development.

Experience & Qualifications

Preferred

Why Smarsh?

Smarsh hires lifelong learners with a passion for innovating with purpose, humility and humor. Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. We work closely with the most popular communications platforms and the world’s leading cloud infrastructure platforms. We use the latest in AI / ML technology to help our customers break new ground at scale. We are a global organization that values diversity, and we believe that providing opportunities for everyone to be their authentic self is key to our success. Smarsh leadership, culture, and commitment to developing our people have all garnered Comparably.com Best Places to Work Awards. Come join us and find out what the best work of your career looks like.