Job Information
Coforma LLC Principal Platform Engineer in N BETHESDA, Maryland
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This role will be a key voice building the foundational platform for our innovation lab, enabling our teams to quickly test, iterate, and ship new scalable and secure products. The Principal Platform Engineer will contribute to the design of infrastructure, security, tooling, and developer productivity platforms, ensuring that the innovation lab technology foundation is reliable, secure, and a delight for developers and customers to use.
As we grow, you will collaborate across departments to promote Platform Engineering and DevSecOps practices, mentor junior engineers, and help drive an in-house Platform function that matches our product and business goals.
If youre passionate about improving lives through digital products and services, then Coforma is a great company for you.
$174,399 to $187,006 Annual Salary + Benefits + Growth Potential
Placement within this range will be based on the competency level of the candidate. An offer will be made at one of the following tiers:
- Tier 1 - $174,399.60: Meets minimum qualification and experience requirements. Will need additional guidance and training beyond onboarding to perform key responsibilities of the role.
- Tier 2 - $181,543.68: Experienced and fully competent. Will be able to independently perform key responsibilities of the role once onboarding is completed.
- Tier 3 - $187,006.80: Highly experienced and can perform all responsibilities of the role at a higher level than expected once onboarding is completed.
To honor our company-wide equitable pay system, the posted salary range and corresponding tier salaries are non-negotiable.
This is a US-based remote position open to applicants in the states listed below. Some travel may be required.
To ensure we remain compliant with all state, county, and local employment and tax regulations, applicants must currently reside in one of the following states to be considered for employment with Coforma. This list will be updated periodically as our PeopleOps team works to open up hiring in additional states.
- Arizona
- California
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Montana
- Nevada
- New Jersey
- New York
- North Carolina
- Oregon
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Virginia
- Washington
- Wisconsin
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What Youll Do (Key Responsibilities)
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This individual contributor role is a critical piece of our Innovation and Platform strategy. The main responsibilities for this role are segmented into the following sections:
Platform Engineering:
- Contribute to our core platform codebase by helping build and maintain shared services such as authentication and identity, API services, and deployment pipelines
- Help research and design a future internal platform portal to catalogue our products and services, and centralize self-service workflows
- Identify areas of developer toil and friction, and design self-service solutions to reduce repetitive tasks and frequent support requests
- Manage CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for containerized and serverless applications
- Partner with Coforma's growth team to deliver innovative solutions and prototypes on our platform
- Promote a Platform-as-a-Product mindset to accelerate the delivery of solutions for all Coforma departments
Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps:
- Serve as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and DevOps lead for the innovation department, supporting product and platform vision by helping shape an in-house SRE and DevOps practice
- Implement and oversee an observability stack (Grafana, Datadog, OTEL, Sentry, Incident.io) to standardize the monitorin , alerting, incident response, and performance of our products and services
- Collaborate across departments as a subject matter expert (SME) to promote SRE best practices and principles within other Engineering and Delivery teams
- Define Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to help drive engineering and product excellence, and work cross-functionally to help define customer Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Lead and promote best practices of Incident Response and Management (IRM) using modern IRM tools
- Mentor junior Platform, DevOps, and SREs
Cloud Infrastructure:
- Help manage our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environment with a focus on performance, resiliency, and security
- Use and promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform or Pulumi for consistent, secure deployments and change management
- Assist developers across engineering teams in their use of cloud infrastructure
- Contribute to the design of high-availability cloud architecture
Security:
- Implement shift-left security to help developers ship secure code with minimal friction
- Assist Platform leadership with compliance goals such as SOC 2, HIPAA, NIST 800-53, and other regulatory standards
- Promote secure SDLC and DevSecOps tools and practices
In Your First 30 Days, You Will:
- Build relationships with Platform leadership, Innovation department leads, engineers, and others in the company who you will be collaborating with
- Audit current observability stack and SRE tooling and begin developing a knowledge of our tech stack
- Learn about the SRE, DevOps, and platform needs of other Engineering teams
- Begin developing an idea of what platform engineering means for the Innovation team and for the broader company
- Identify core platform components that need to be built to meet the Innovation and Engineering teams needs
After 60 Days:
Manage day-to-day Platform, DevSecOps, and SRE tasks as our in-house Platform Lead, including owning observability, on-call, incident management, and developer relations
Collaborate with developers and provide technical leadership and guidance to support the Innovation departments vision from a platform perspective
Begin contributing to our
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