Bolt is looking to democratize commerce by enabling frictionless shopping at any touchpoint in the customer journey. The company is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to lead foundational work that enables every engineering team at Bolt to ship fast, securely, and reliably, architect cloud-native infrastructure, improve developer experience and reliability, and ensure the platform scales with the business.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering roles
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes, Helm, and infrastructure-as-code tooling like Terraform
- Strong software engineering skills, ideally in Go or Python
- Experience building CI/CD systems and improving developer workflows
- Clear understanding of cloud networking, service mesh, and zero-trust design patterns
- Hands-on experience with observability tools and setting SLOs (e.g., Datadog)
- Ability to lead architectural design and cross-team technical projects
Responsibilities
- Designing and evolving Bolt’s Kubernetes-based platform and GitOps infrastructure
- Driving developer experience improvements across CI/CD, secrets management, and observability
- Implementing scalable, secure systems for networking, identity, and service-to-service communication
- Building shared platform tooling that is resilient and easy to adopt
- Supporting critical compliance efforts including PCI-DSS and SOC2
- Partnering with SDEs to improve incident response, SLOs, and reliability metrics
- Collaborating cross-functionally to accelerate product velocity and reduce cognitive load
Other
- Ideally based in the West Coast of the United States or Canada.
- Candidates from outside of the Pacific Time Zone we will ask to be flexible to provide coverage when necessary.
- This is a contract-to-hire opportunity with the option to convert to full-time after 3–6 months.
- Mentoring other engineers on infrastructure design, reliability, and security best practices
- Leading cross-org platform initiatives with clear communication and ownership
