Staff Platform Engineer

Role Description

Our Engineering Automation & AI Toolchain team builds the internal developer platform that consists of Formation (our GitOps-driven internal developer platform), Patina (the toolchain and developer-experience layer) and Manifold (the configuration and telemetry pipeline that ties them together).

The design problem to solve is running it efficiently, comprehensively, and accurately, which means Day-2 operations engineered to hold up against company growth, product maturity, and the entropy that accumulates in anything left running. We are seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to own that problem: migrating a live legacy estate onto the platform, extending its reach into the parts of the company and toolchain it does not serve yet, and designing the operational regime that keeps all of it honest as it scales.

Relocation assistance is available.

What you'll do:

• Lead migrations from legacy infrastructure to modern platforms, through decommissioning.
• Design migration strategy, including sequencing, cutover, rollback, and validation.
• Minimize disruption to dependent teams and turn one-off migrations into repeatable patterns.
• Extend the platform to new teams and toolchains, defining and documenting integration patterns.
• Design Day-2 operations for capacity, upgrades, and lifecycle at future scale.
• Build auditing for configuration drift, dependency currency, and secret/certificate lifecycle.
• Maintain and review IaC, pipeline, and configuration standards.
• Design monitoring and alerting, and define SLOs with internal customers.
• Lead complex incident response and drive postmortems to structural fixes.
• Build automation and agent workflows with appropriate guardrails and human review.
• Codify expertise into runbooks and tooling others can run.
• Share technical leadership on design reviews, key decisions, and platform initiatives.
• Mentor junior engineers and delegate effectively.
• Partner with IT, Security, Data, and operations teams.
• Write design docs, decision records, and standards.
• Implement security and compliance controls, and automate audit evidence.
• Model and forecast cloud cost and capacity.

What you'll bring:

• 7–10 years of related experience in infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Demonstrated experience migrating production systems off legacy infrastructure and onto a new platform — sequencing, coexistence, cutover, and rollback — without disrupting the teams that depend on them.
• Wide-ranging hands-on depth across AWS, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code — demonstrated experience resolving complex infrastructure problems that required in-depth evaluation of competing factors, not just applying a known procedure.
• Demonstrated experience operating and scaling CI/CD and GitOps delivery systems, including leading incident response in complex, multi-system environments and converting failures into structural fixes.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical work through others — directing engineers on an initiative, mentoring, and driving design review — and working effectively with partners outside your own area of expertise.
• Enough hard-won depth to supervise AI-generated work: you can tell correct from merely plausible in infrastructure code and operational output, and you know which of its shortcuts are safe to take.

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Humanity is a cornerstone of Form Energy’s culture, and we make sure our compensation and benefits reflect that. Form Energy offers competitive salaries, stock options, and a holistic benefits package to ensure all employees have what they need to thrive while working here.

When it comes to you and your family’s health, we cover 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees - and 80% of healthcare premiums for dependents. This starts from day one. We also offer at least 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents (up to 20 weeks for birthing parents), and generous vacation policies to give employees time to recharge when needed.