Senior/Staff Platform Engineer/SRE
Palo Alto, CA / New York, NY / Miami, FL
Technology – Flow Engineering /
Salaried, full-time /
Hybrid
About the Company
At Flow, we’re reimagining what it means to live, work, and connect. More than just a real estate company, Flow is a brand, a technology platform, and an operations ecosystem spanning condominiums, hotels, multifamily residences, and office spaces. We’re building a new kind of living experience: one that’s flexible, connected, and designed to create genuine community and real value for the people who call Flow home.
Our mission is oneness: prioritizing our residents and their experiences, and fostering connection with ourselves, their neighbors, and the natural world. By putting people at the center of everything we do, we’re creating vibrant, human-centered communities where life, work, creativity, and play all come together in one place.
About the Role
As an early member of our engineering team, you will significantly influence the technical direction of Flow. We are in search of a Senior Platform Engineer who is not only enthusiastic about designing, developing, and deploying robust platform solutions but also committed to ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of our system. Your contributions will be foundational in driving Flow towards achieving its goals and making a huge impact on the productivity of our product engineering team.
At Flow, our mission is to utilize cutting-edge technology to enhance decision-making processes across the organization. As innovators in our domain, we aim to not only keep pace with the rapidly changing landscape of platform engineering but to be at the forefront of its evolution.
Responsibilities:
- 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
- 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.
$180,000 - $275,000 a year
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
Flow is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and hires regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity and/or expression, pregnancy, Veteran status any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, we provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities.
