# Senior/Staff Platform Engineer/SRE

**Company**: Flow
**Location**: Palo Alto
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $180,000-275,000 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/flowlife/3ae47b09-e4b4-41be-9312-fafb1d85cf4d
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_26bff84c-def

## Description

About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer who will design, develop, and deploy robust platform solutions to ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of our system.

Responsibilities
- Identify and build AI-powered capabilities into Flow's platform, from intelligent automation in building operations to personalized resident experiences.
- Use AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) as part of your daily workflow to accelerate development, improve code quality, and push the boundaries of what a small team can ship.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define clear requirements and translate them into software solutions.
- Core contributor to implementing foundational infrastructure, tooling and automation that is scalable, reliable, and secure.
- Elevate site reliability engineering best practices while collaborating with back-end developers.
- Develop service-level tooling to enhance productionization, data migrations, system hardening, and related initiatives.
- Manage and optimize a multi-region environment.
- Be available for on-call activities for infrastructure and services.

Ideal Background
- A minimum 10 years in software engineering, site reliability engineering, or platform engineering.
- Fluency with AI-assisted development tools and a strong point of view on how AI changes the way software gets built.
- Ability to design, implement and maintain the tools and systems that support service reliability, monitoring, and alerting.
- Deep understanding of the principles of ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and efficiency in distributed systems.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency with Terraform.
- Experience with Kubernetes.
- Experience administering cloud-based infrastructure (GCP preferred).
- Experience troubleshooting production issues related to cloud infrastructure, configuration, monitoring, deployments, continuous integration and delivery.
- A keen ability to balance elegant design with pragmatic tradeoffs, prioritizing continuous delivery of business value.
- Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new skillsets.
- Experience building software in fast-moving startup environments.
- Participate in incident response and post-mortems to identify and address systemic issues.

Additional Information
Benefits
- Comprehensive Benefits Package (Medical / Dental / Vision / Disability / Life)
- Paid time off and 13 paid holidays
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
- Access to HSA-compatible plans
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP), free therapy through SpringHealth, acupuncture, and other wellness offerings

## Skills

### Required
- AI-assisted development tools
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Cloud-based infrastructure administration
- Site reliability engineering
- Monitoring and alerting
- Service-level tooling
- Multi-region environment management