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Remote Platform Engineer jobs

43 open positions in the United States, newest first.

Builds the internal infrastructure and tooling that other engineers use to ship and run their services. Rather than operating each application, platform engineers provide shared building blocks: Kubernetes clusters, deployment pipelines, infrastructure modules, observability, and self-service workflows. Their customers are the company's own developers, and the measure of success is how little those developers have to think about infrastructure.

About the Platform Engineer role

What the work looks like

  • Operates Kubernetes clusters, including upgrades, autoscaling, networking, and the policies that govern what teams can deploy.
  • Writes Terraform modules so product teams can provision databases, queues, and environments without filing a ticket.
  • Maintains CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling, and shortens build and release times when they become a bottleneck.
  • Sets up metrics, logging, and tracing defaults so every new service is observable from its first deploy.
  • Takes part in the on-call rotation and writes postmortems that lead to platform-level fixes.

What employers ask for

  • Kubernetes administration and Helm
  • Terraform or other infrastructure as code
  • AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
  • Go or Python for tooling
  • CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions or Argo CD
  • Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry

Doing this job remotely

Infrastructure is managed entirely through code and cloud consoles, so the role is commonly remote. The constraint is on-call: platform outages affect every team, and rotations are often built around time zones for round-the-clock coverage. Elevated production access usually means stricter device security, and some employers limit the countries you can work from.

Where it comes from and where it leads

Platform engineers typically come from site reliability, DevOps, systems administration, or backend engineering with a taste for infrastructure. They progress to staff or principal platform roles, infrastructure architecture, or engineering management of a platform group.