Staff Platform Engineer - Infra + DevOps

Honor Technology is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer with at least 6 years of experience to design, implement, and maintain scalable distributed systems and infrastructure. This highly technical, hands-on role involves building and managing core services, infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines for Honor’s Care Platform. The ideal candidate will work with cloud services like AWS and Kubernetes, focusing on automation, observability, and ensuring reliability and efficiency for the entire engineering organization. This role offers an opportunity to make a significant impact on the future evolution of Honor’s platform.

Must Have

• At least 6 years of professional experience in a platform engineering team within a product-centric company.
• Design and implement foundational patterns and libraries for Python applications.
• Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to ensure reproducible and scalable environment setups.
• Design and implement infrastructure for applications hosted on AWS, supporting event-driven systems, containerized services on Kubernetes, and serverless functions.
• Develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, ArgoCD.
• Have experience automating the lifecycle management of code from development through production, including code promotion and configuration management.
• Instrument observability through tools such as CloudWatch and DataDog to monitor and optimize application performance across multiple environments.
• Scale infrastructure to meet increasing demand while managing cost effectively.
• Have experience defining, instrumenting and measuring standards for quality, security, scalability, and availability with a focus on delivering business value.

Good to Have

• Passion for delivering turn-key developer experience for local development.
• Keen interest in developing talent through mentorship.
• Strong written and verbal communication, tailored to a variety of audiences.
• A strategic thinker with a product-first approach and customer obsession.
• Experience working with an RPC architecture.
• Experience working at a technology startup and familiar with the challenges of evolving platform maturity.
• First-hand experience navigating multiple distributed architecture patterns.

Perks & Benefits

• Generous equity packages
• 401K with up to a 4% employer match
• Medical, dental and vision coverage including zero cost plans for employees
• Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability and Life Insurance are fully employer paid
• Voluntary additional Life Insurance option
• Generous time off program
• Mental health benefits
• Wellness program
• Discount program

We are looking for a seasoned Platform Engineer with experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable distributed systems & infrastructure. The platform engineering team builds and manages the infrastructure & core services that powers Honor’s Care Platform. Our charter is focused on providing foundational building blocks to enable the entire engineering organization to deliver reliably and efficiently. We also own build and deployment pipelines of our services, maintenance of various environments and their supporting infrastructure and serve as consultants to build the right abstractions for patterns of problems. This is a highly technical, hands-on role that requires a wide and deep experience in managing applications and infrastructure across cloud services. It requires deep practical knowledge of cloud platforms, advanced software design patterns & architecture, operations and automation, and containerization technologies like Kubernetes. The ideal candidate is driven by providing business value, is comfortable working with systems at varying levels of maturity, and appreciates making nuanced tradeoffs. You will be joining a small team of highly-skilled, enthusiastic, and passionate engineers with an opportunity to create an outsized impact in contributing to the future evolution of Honor’s Care Platform.

What are we looking for in a candidate:

• You thrive in a foundational role supporting diverse, cross-functional teams as your customers, possess exceptional problem solving and analytical skills.
• At least 6 years of professional experience in a platform engineering team within a product-centric company.
• Design and implement foundational patterns and libraries for Python applications, across a range of technologies from API services to event processing
• Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to ensure reproducible and scalable environment setups.
• Design and implement infrastructure for applications hosted on AWS, supporting event-driven systems, containerized services on Kubernetes, and serverless functions.
• Develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, ArgoCD.
• Have experience automating the lifecycle management of code from development through production, including code promotion and configuration management.
• Instrument observability through tools such as CloudWatch and DataDog to monitor and optimize application performance across multiple environments.
• Scale infrastructure to meet increasing demand while managing cost effectively
• Have experience defining, instrumenting and measuring standards for quality, security, scalability, and availability with a focus on delivering business value.
• Have passion for delivering turn-key developer experience for local development
• Keen interest in developing talent through mentorship
• Strong written and verbal communication, tailored to a variety of audiences
• A strategic thinker with a product-first approach and customer obsession.

Some, or all, of these are true:

• You have experience working with an RPC architecture
• You work at or have worked at a technology startup and familiar with the challenges of evolving platform maturity
• You have first hand experience navigating multiple distributed architecture patterns

Our range reflects the hiring range for this position. We use national average to determine pay as we are a remote first company. Individual pay is based on a number of factors including qualifications, skills, experience, education, and training. Base pay is just a part of our total rewards program. Honor offers generous equity packages that increase with position level and responsibilities, and a 401K with up to a 4% employer match.We provide medical, dental and vision coverage including zero cost plans for employees. Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability and Life Insurance are fully employer paid with a voluntary additional Life Insurance option. We offer a generous time off program, mental health benefits, wellness program, and discount program.

Honor Technology’s mission is to change the way society cares for older adults. As a leader in aging care innovation, Honor provides the technology, tools, and services that empower older adults to live life on their own terms. Honor’s growing portfolio includes its consumer care brand, Home Instead, Inc., the world’s leading provider of in-home care for older adults. With a global franchise network and more than 100,000 Care Pros, Home Instead delivers over 50 million hours of personalized care annually.

Together, Honor and Home Instead are setting a new standard for aging in place, backed by powerful technology, compassionate care, and a commitment to aging on your own terms.

Join us to create a new and better aging experience for our clients, their families, and our Care Professionals.

At Honor, we put people first. Our leadership culture is guided by Leadership Principles that prioritize integrity, compassion, and excellence. We offer a unique opportunity to lead with purpose and make a meaningful impact no matter your role.

Honor is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, political affiliation or belief.