About the Role

The Platform Engineering team’s mission is to delight our engineers with simple solutions and to advance Hinge’s infrastructure operability. We do so by leading the design and implementation of infrastructure resiliency, expansion, observability, and security improvements. Our impact doesn’t stop there. We create and operate services that internal teams and customers depend on. As Hinge forges towards a global product offering, we will focus on building the next generation of our Platform. Some initiatives and problem spaces on the horizon are establishing a global multi-region architecture, mitigating third-party risk(s), and delighting engineers with tools and solutions that increase their velocity.

Platform Engineering is a crucial cross-functional team that collaborates closely with all engineering disciplines at Hinge. Our work is challenging and impactful in improving the engineering experience. We are searching for a seasoned and highly motivated Platform Engineer to join our team in solving some of our complex problems in simple ways.

Responsibilities

• Ship code that improves our infrastructure, observability, security, and internal tooling across varying problem spaces.
• Design, build, and maintain a global, highly available, low-latency infrastructure to service the needs of our customers.
• Lead with an ownership mentality to solve novel technical problems as they arise.
• Empathetically help teams improve their systems' performance, scalability, reliability, and observability.
• Leave a trail of high-quality technical documentation of initiatives, postmortems, and endeavor to uphold good knowledge-sharing practices.
• Join the Platform Engineering on-call rotation.

What We're Looking For

• Proficient coding experience in Go or another systems language
• Experience using Terraform (or other IaC tools) at scale
• Experience with AWS or another cloud service provider
• Experience with Kubernetes or another container orchestration system
• Experience working on CI/CD pipelines
• Experience working on a platform teams
• Experience as a member of an on-call rotation