Senior Platform Engineer, Developer Experience

You’ll be joining the Developer Experience (DevX) team — a team of talented engineers passionate about building scalable tooling and infrastructure that empowers other developers to do their best work. At Weave, our engineering teams are highly autonomous and trusted with full ownership to make decisions that align with what’s best for our customers and company. DevX plays a critical role in enabling that autonomy by designing the systems and platforms that remove friction, reduce cognitive overhead, and accelerate developer velocity.

As a Platform Engineer on DevX, you’ll help architect new solutions, maintain existing systems, and drive continuous improvement across our internal platforms. You'll work in close partnership with engineers across product teams to ensure our tooling meets their needs, aligns with our tech vision, and supports the evolving complexity of our systems as Weave grows.

This role has broad, foundational impact. You’ll be instrumental in building and maintaining the core infrastructure that powers our development workflows — from CI/CD pipelines to local dev environments to test frameworks and observability. Your work will directly improve the productivity, experience, and happiness of every engineer at Weave, enabling faster, safer, and more reliable delivery of high-quality products to our customers.

- This position will be remote in India

- Reports to: Engineering Manager, Developer Experience

WHAT YOU WILL OWN

- Design, build, and maintain our GitOps-based continuous deployment pipeline, enabling safe, scalable, and automated service delivery across environments.

- Develop and support internal CLI tooling used by engineers to streamline their workflows (e.g., scaffolding services, triggering builds, accessing logs).

- Create and manage custom GitHub Apps and Actions that enforce code quality, validate pull requests, and automate common engineering tasks.

- Own our secret management strategy and tooling, ensuring secure storage, access, and rotation practices across development environments.

- Build and operate custom Kubernetes operators and CRDs to extend and automate infrastructure management for engineering teams.

- Maintain and evolve our automated SLO system, enabling teams to define, measure, and act on service-level objectives with minimal friction.

- Own the internal developer portal, centralizing documentation, service catalogs, and self-service infrastructure tools to empower developers.

- Contribute to and maintain internal API frameworks that promote consistency, observability, and developer ergonomics across Go microservices.

- Define and enforce Protobuf linting rules and manage the tooling for code generation to ensure consistent and reliable cross-service communication.

- Partner with engineers across Weave to improve developer workflows and support a large fleet of Go microservices running in production.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO ACCOMPLISH THE JOB

- 5-8 years of backend software development experience, ideally with hands-on work in designing APIs, distributed systems, or platform infrastructure.

- Strong proficiency in Go, with the ability to write clean, maintainable, and idiomatic code for tooling, services, and automation.

- A strong understanding of service-to-service communication patterns (e.g., REST, gRPC).

- Deep understanding of distributed systems and the ability to design infrastructure that is observable, resilient, and maintainable at scale.

- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including authoring Helm charts, managing workloads, and working with CRDs and operators.

- Proficiency in continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices and tools, with an emphasis on GitOps workflows.

- Strong systems thinking and debugging skills, especially in cloud-native environments (preferably Google Cloud Platform).

- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Helm to manage and provision cloud and Kubernetes resources.

- Experience building developer-facing tools or internal platforms, with empathy for the developer experience and a bias for automation.

WHAT WILL MAKE US LOVE YOU

- You have deep experience with protobuf and gRPC, including code generation, schema evolution, and service contract design.

- You've built custom Kubernetes operators or extended the Kubernetes control plane to support complex workflows or automation needs.

- You bring hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, including GKE, IAM, Pub/Sub, Cloud Build, and related services.

- You’ve made contributions to open-source projects or have built internal tooling worth sharing—demonstrating thought leadership and community involvement.

- You’re passionate about improving developer workflows and think like a product owner, always looking for ways to reduce friction and increase team velocity.

- You value mentorship and knowledge-sharing, helping raise the bar for engineering excellence acros