Staff Platform Engineer

About Doma Technology Doma Technology LLC offers solutions for lenders, real estate professionals, title agents, and homeowners that make closings vastly simpler and more efficient, reducing cost and increasing customer satisfaction. Our Values Obsessively Entrepreneurial – We encourage calculated risk‑taking, and we know that some of our best learning happens by making mistakes along the way. People First – We communicate with honesty and respect to our customers, colleagues, and partners. Better Together – We believe diversity, equity and inclusion creates value through the differences in our backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Act with Integrity – We hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards in all of our business practices. Key Responsibilities Design and Architect Platform Services: Lead the technical design and implementation of core platform services and automation frameworks, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules, CI/CD pipelines, and self‑service tooling that enables engineering teams to deploy with confidence and speed. Drive Operational Excellence: Build and operationalize comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions across the organization. Establish SLOs/SLIs and implement systems to ensure platform reliability, performance, and availability at scale. Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Serve as the hands‑on technical leader and subject‑matter expert, mentoring engineers across multiple teams on best practices for building scalable, resilient, cloud‑native systems. Define and enforce architectural standards, coding practices, and operational excellence principles. Cross‑Functional Collaboration: Partner with data engineering, SRE, security, and software teams to support and scale products. Build for Scale & Reliability: Architect and implement platform components that handle significant technical and organizational scale, supporting high‑throughput systems with minimal latency and maximum reliability. Drive initiatives toward event‑based architectures and distributed systems patterns. Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve developer productivity, reduce operational toil, and increase system reliability. Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies, bringing forward innovative solutions that advance our platform capabilities. Required Qualifications\ 8+ years of professional experience in data engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or DevOps roles, with a proven track record operating at the Staff or Principal IC level. Extensive experience building and operating large‑scale, distributed systems in production environments. Deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), particularly large‑scale usage of Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or another IaC framework. Expert‑level knowledge of container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker) and cloud‑native application deployment patterns. Strong experience with CI/CD practices and tooling (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD) and experience building self‑service pipelines for engineering teams. Proficiency in system programming languages (Python, Go, or similar) used for building internal tooling, automation APIs, and platform services. Proven experience designing and maintaining production observability systems (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog, or similar). Experience building scalable services on top of public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) with extensive use of managed services, databases (RDBMS, NoSQL, key‑value stores), and distributed systems. Strong understanding of networking, security, and systems architecture in cloud environments. Excellent communication and documentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders and write clear architectural decision records (ADRs). Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience). Preferred Qualifications Experience working with AI/ML platforms, frameworks, and APIs, including deploying and scaling large models. Hands‑on experience with GitOps workflows and tools (Flux, ArgoCD). Background in event‑driven architectures and streaming platforms (Kafka, Kinesis, Pulsar). Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, Consul). Familiarity with security scanning tools for container images, Infrastructure as Code, and runtime security. Knowledge of FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization strategies. Experience building developer platforms or internal platform‑as‑a‑service (PaaS) offerings. Contributions to open‑source projects, particularly in the infrastructure, Kubernetes, or platform engineering space. Experience working in fast‑paced, high‑growth environments with rapidly changing requirements. Track record of shipping impactful infrastructure projects that measurably improved developer productivity or system reliability. Technical Skills / Stack Cloud Platforms AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Deep knowledge of compute, networking, storage, and managed services Container & Orchestration Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE, or self‑managed) Docker, containerd Helm charts and package management Infrastructure as Code Terraform (required) CloudFormation, Pulumi, or Crossplane Configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet) CI/CD & GitOps GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or Jenkins ArgoCD, Flux, or Spinnaker Artifact management (Artifactory, ECR, Harbor) Observability & Monitoring Prometheus & Grafana ELK/EFK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash/Fluentd, Kibana) Distributed tracing (Jaeger, Tempo, Datadog APM) Alerting and incident management (PagerDuty, Opsgenie) Programming & Scripting Python, Go, or Rust Bash/Shell scripting YAML, JSON, HCL Databases & Data Stores PostgreSQL, MySQL Redis, RabbitMQ, Memcached DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra Networking & Security Load balancers and ingress controllers DNS, CDN, and edge networking TLS/SSL certificate management Network policies and security groups Secret management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault) Staff Engineer Leadership Expectations Technical Leadership Drive architectural decisions with organization‑wide impact Design systems and abstractions that enable teams to move faster while maintaining quality and reliability Lead technical initiatives from conception through delivery, navigating ambiguity and making principled trade‑offs Serve as the go‑to expert for platform architecture, consulted by teams across the engineering organization Cross‑Team Impact Influence platform strategy and technical roadmap across multiple teams and organizations Identify and drive initiatives that unblock or accelerate work for multiple engineering teams Partner with engineering leadership to align platform investments with business objectives Build consensus across diverse stakeholders and drive adoption of platform standards Mentorship Responsibilities Mentor and level up engineers at various levels, from junior to senior Conduct design reviews and provide constructive technical feedback Share knowledge through documentation, tech talks, and pairing sessions Foster a culture of operational excellence, best practices, and continuous learning Strategic Thinking Anticipate future technical needs based on business growth and scale requirements Evaluate emerging technologies and make recommendations on adoption Balance short‑term execution with long‑term architectural vision Contribute to engineering‑wide technical strategy and platform vision Compensation & Benefits We offer a comprehensive package of benefits to eligible employees (FTE, non‑contract): medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), generous vacation time, and paid bonding leave. Salary range: $132,100 USD – $236,300 USD. The range may be modified in the future. At Doma, compensation decisions are dependent on facts and circumstances. Other compensation components include Bonus & Equity. Equal Opportunity We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Job Location San Francisco, CA Seniority Level Director Employment Type Contract Industries Hospitals and Health Care, Wellness and Fitness Services, and Technology, Information and Internet #J-18808-Ljbffr