Platform Engineer

Role Overview

This mid to senior-level Platform Engineer role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining internal platforms to support application development, deployment, and runtime operations. The engineer will collaborate with Infrastructure, IT, Engineering, Architecture, and SRE teams to build stable and resilient platforms, focusing on infrastructure-as-code, reusable components, and tooling for CI/CD pipelines and environment provisioning. Their impact includes optimizing the platform to reduce friction in the development lifecycle and embedding reliability and security best practices into platform primitives.

Perks & Benefits

The role is remote, likely with flexibility in time zones given the collaboration with teams across technology departments. It offers opportunities for career growth through hands-on work in software development and infrastructure management, partnering with various teams to drive platform improvements. The company culture emphasizes collaboration and expertise in the automotive industry, with a focus on producing exceptional results in a supportive team environment.

Full Job Description

Join our award-winning A-Team! Ready to produce exceptional results with exceptional people? Get in touch, we would love to get to know you. Affinitiv is the largest provider of end-to-end, data-driven marketing and software solutions exclusively focused on the automotive customer lifecycle. Backed by 20+ years of automotive and marketing expertise, we pride ourselves on being the go-to experts in the industry. Not only do we work with over 6,500 dealerships and every major manufacturer in the country, we're well-versed in OEM standards and the intricacies of a dealership or group's local business. Reporting to the VP, Infrastructure & IT, the Platform Engineer will work with Infrastructure, IT, Engineering, Architecture and SRE teams to build a stable and resilient platform to bring value to our customers through high quality software. They should have a hands-on background in software development and infrastructure management as they will use both heavily for their responsibilities. They will regularly collaborate with teams inside and outside technology to ensure that our platform is optimized to best serve our customers. Position Responsibilities:

Design, implement, and maintain internal platforms that support application development, deployment, and runtime operations. Build reusable infrastructure components, APIs, and tooling that enable teams to self-serve common needs (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, environment provisioning, service templates). Develop platform services using infrastructure-as-code and software engineering best practices. Manage networking, compute, storage, and identity systems that underpin production workloads. Partner with application teams to understand pain points and reduce friction in the development lifecycle. Create clear documentation, examples, and standards that help teams adopt platform capabilities effectively. Embed reliability and security best practices into platform primitives by default. Implement monitPlease mention the word **YAY** and tag RODguMTk4Ljk5LjE0Mw== when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RODguMTk4Ljk5LjE0Mw==). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.

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