# Sr. Staff Platform Engineer

Hiring organization: [Hims and Hers](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/hims-and-hers)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/9fa31883-50bd-4c54-b3e8-e053a0719837

Listed on Hims and Hers's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Lead / Staff / Principal
- Location: US Remote
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 250000 – 280000 USD per year

## Summary

This role leads platform architecture and infrastructure strategy across the entire organization, owning multi-quarter initiatives like service mesh adoption and multi-region resilience while mentoring other senior engineers. It suits someone with deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes and distributed systems who can drive alignment across teams without direct authority and translate technical work into measurable business outcomes.

_Our summary, not Hims and Hers's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon EKS, Go, Infrastructure as Code, Istio, Java, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform, TypeScript

## Required

- 12+ years in Platform, Infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles
- Ownership of at least one multi-team or cross-business-unit initiative
- Production expertise in Kubernetes/EKS and service mesh architecture
- Deep experience with Istio including mTLS, traffic shaping, and multi-cluster rollout
- Infrastructure-as-Code proficiency (Terraform or equivalent) at scale
- Track record leading complex multi-quarter technical programs from architecture through execution
- Experience debugging production incidents in distributed, multi-hop systems
- Proficiency in at least one of Go, Python, TypeScript, or Java
- Demonstrated ability to influence and drive alignment across teams without direct authority
- Experience mentoring Staff-level engineers and shaping org-wide system design approaches

## Nice to have

- Experience with AI-native platform tooling and agentic frameworks
- Track record of large-scale cost or infrastructure consolidation with measurable business impact
- Experience with multi-region or high-availability architecture including RPO/RTO planning and SLO definition
- Ability to author RFCs and present technical proposals to senior leadership

Apply on Hims and Hers's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hims-and-hers/25d66321-50b1-4590-ab56-439180333ff1/application