Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Crossing Hurdles is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to work on remote cloud infrastructure tasks. The role involves creating and managing distributed systems, building containerized environments, and developing integration and recovery tests.

Responsibilities

• Create realistic cloud infrastructure tasks involving distributed systems, networking, security, scalability, and reliability
• Build reproducible, containerized environments with valid reference solutions and intentionally defective variants
• Define measurable requirements across infrastructure configuration, deployed topology, and runtime behavior
• Develop deterministic integration, load, security, failure-injection, deployment, and recovery tests
• Debug environments, document technical decisions, and review tasks created by other experts

Skills

• Senior-level cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, or SRE experience, including personal ownership of a production platform
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, scalable APIs, queues, autoscaling, durable storage, and partial-failure scenarios
• Practical experience with IAM, private networking, least-privilege access, and service-to-service security
• Experience with observability, measurable SLOs, rolling deployments, rollback strategies, and disaster recovery
• Ability to write infrastructure automation or testing tools and debug containerized environments using a relevant programming language

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