Platform Engineer – Terraform & Developer Experience – Vice President

Overview

In this role, you will design and maintain reusable Terraform modules for cloud database platforms, focusing on scalable, well-documented interfaces and guardrails. You will work with cross-functional teams to translate real customer needs into composable module patterns and deliver a smooth developer experience. Expect to expand patterns from AWS to GCP, improve quality through testing and observability, and automate infrastructure-as-code workflows. You’ll help raise the bar on security, reliability, and adoption across the platform.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade Terraform modules for cloud database platforms
• Define module interfaces, versioning, and backward-compatible upgrade paths
• Automate infrastructure-as-code workflows (scaffolding, validations, linting, configuration generation, integration utilities)
• Develop clean, testable Python utilities to improve module correctness and developer workflow
• Implement Git-based practices for code reviews, release management, and CI/CD for Terraform
• Integrate security, policy checks, and guardrails with security, risk, and compliance stakeholders
• Produce high-quality module documentation, examples, and adoption guidance
• Collaborate with application teams to translate requirements into reusable module patterns
• Improve reliability and operability of database platform modules via testing and operational considerations
• Contribute to roadmap planning and expansion of module coverage to GCP

Key requirements

• Advanced Terraform expertise with reusable, production-grade modules
• Experience with IaC practices: Git workflows, code reviews, automated validations
• Proficiency in automation/tooling around IaC, including Python
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: modular design, debugging, testing, secure coding
• Hands-on AWS experience with database services and patterns
• Networking/security fundamentals: VPCs, subnets, security groups, encryption, IAM, secrets
• Exposure to GCP IaC patterns, Terraform provider usage, state and core concepts
• Ability to design paved-road developer experiences with guardrails and defaults
• Ability to collaborate with security/risk/compliance and with application teams

• cross-functional collaboration
• strong communication
• problem solving
• Terraform (advanced modules, inputs/outputs, documentation, composability)
• Python (clean, testable utilities)
• Terratest, linting, policy-as-code

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