Enginner II, Infrastructure (Platform Engineer)

Overview

Join Anaplan's Environment Tooling team as a Platform Engineer (P3) to build and operate the platform infrastructure and non-production environments that let engineers develop, test and deliver services with speed, safety and reliability.

What you'll do

• Empower engineering teams by collaborating in a cross-functional team to build and operate tools, frameworks and platforms that improve developer experience, platform scalability and security for hundreds of engineers.
• Shape the future of environments by contributing to the design, implementation and roll-out of a next-generation environments strategy, helping transition engineering teams to automated, code-defined local and remote ephemeral environments.
• Champion environment health by taking collective ownership of non-production environments, ensuring platform service health and acting as a trusted first port of call for engineering support and troubleshooting.
• Scale deployment and configuration infrastructure by contributing to the maintenance and architectural evolution of Argo CD deployment pipelines, secrets management infrastructure and feature flagging capabilities.
• Evolve existing platform tooling by helping maintain, refactor and modernize Go-based tools, APIs and Kubernetes Operators to eliminate configuration toil and support new platform capabilities.
• Deliver measurable outcomes as a proactive self-starter who takes end-to-end ownership of work through agile practices, planning and road mapping, and participates in the team on-call rota.

What you'll need

• Experience with Kubernetes in a production or pre-production environment.
• Strong practical understanding of continuous delivery pipelines, GitOps workflows and continuous deployment tooling, specifically Argo CD.
• A passion for treating platform infrastructure as a product, focusing on improving Developer Experience, reducing cognitive load for engineers and gathering feedback to build highly usable tools.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools, ideally Terraform.
• Experience working with HashiCorp Vault or similar secrets management technologies.
• A focus on building fault-tolerant systems, backed by automated testing, golden templates and clear developer documentation.
• A collaborative mindset with the ability to provide clear guidance, support and best practices and to articulate trade-offs clearly to diverse audiences.

Nice to have

• Hands-on development experience in Go (or a similar language).
• Experience writing, testing or maintaining Kubernetes Operators and Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs).
• Experience administering feature flagging platforms such as LaunchDarkly.
• Experience designing local container-based development workflows.
• Knowledge of observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus or Loki.

Details

• Role level: Platform Engineer P3, with 3-6 years of experience.
• Mid-senior individual contributor on a team of five engineers reporting to the team engineering manager.
• Participation in the team on-call rota.