Sr. Platform Engineer

Sr. Platform Engineer

Location Austin, TX 78701 Date Posted September 02, 2026 Job ID 15433 Employment Type Direct Hire

Scion Staffing has been engaged to conduct a search for a Senior Platform Engineer for a rapidly growing streaming media and advertising technology company that delivers cloud-based entertainment solutions to businesses. This is a direct-hire, hybrid position based in Austin, Texas, with an onsite schedule Monday through Thursday and work from home Fridays.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The Senior Platform Engineer will serve as the dedicated platform and DevOps lead supporting a large-scale, cloud-based streaming environment. This hands-on position will strengthen infrastructure, delivery pipelines, observability, and AI-enabled engineering workflows while establishing consistent platform practices across multiple development teams. The ideal candidate is a curious and collaborative engineer who is excited about using AI coding tools and comfortable taking ownership across DevOps, cloud infrastructure, SRE, and developer enablement.

PERKS:

• Competitive base compensation with flexibility up to approximately $190,000 for a highly qualified candidate
• Employer-sponsored benefits package, along with a 10-15% annual bonus.
• High-impact opportunity to become the organization's dedicated Platform and DevOps lead
• Hybrid Austin schedule with remote flexibility on Fridays
• Potential relocation assistance for qualified candidates moving to the Austin area

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own and improve cloud infrastructure across a primarily AWS environment with some GCP services, emphasizing scalability, reliability, and operational simplicity.
• Lead the infrastructure-as-code practice by developing reusable Terraform patterns and ensuring declared configurations remain aligned with production environments.
• Design, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines, build infrastructure, deployment processes, and the overall path from code commit to production.
• Create AI-enabled engineering workflows that strengthen automated testing, code review, development velocity, and software quality before production releases.
• Establish shared platform and deployment standards across three engineering teams to improve consistency and reduce duplicated solutions.
• Strengthen observability and resilience through effective metrics, tracing, logging, alerting, safe deployment practices, incident response, and root-cause remediation.
• Participate in an on-call rotation of approximately one week per month, support escalated production issues, and troubleshoot application code when platform concerns extend into the application layer.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• At least 5+ years of professional Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure experience;
• Hands-on experience operating production cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, with exposure to GCP beneficial.
• Strong Terraform expertise or comparable infrastructure-as-code experience, including reusable patterns, standards, state alignment, and deployment consistency.
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, or significantly improving CI/CD systems and automated software delivery workflows.
• Experience supporting containerized or serverless production workloads and implementing observability through metrics, tracing, logging, and alerting.
• Daily, enthusiastic use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools to accelerate engineering, testing, learning, and code review.
• Comfortable reading and debugging application code, with Python experience beneficial; strong ownership, technical communication, curiosity, and a collaborative approach are essential.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

This position offers competitive base compensation with flexibility up to approximately $190,000 annually for a highly qualified candidate, depending on experience, skills, and overall alignment with the position. The selected candidate will also receive an employer-sponsored benefits package, with complete plan details provided during the interview process, and relocation assistance may be available for qualified candidates moving to the Austin area.

HOW TO APPLY: For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here!

ABOUT OUR SEARCH FIRM:

Scion Staffing is a national award-winning staffing firm! Since 2006, we have had the pleasure of successfully placing thousands of talented professionals with amazing career opportunities. Through our innovative team building and recruiting solutions, we bridge the gap in executive leadership searches, direct hire recruiting, interim leadership placement, and temporary professional staffing. We are proud to be part of the Forbes lists of the Best Recruitment Firms and the Best Executive Search Firms in America. Additionally, Scion has been recognized as a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing firm as well as a top recruitment firm by The Business Times. Additional information about our firm can also be found online.

Scion Staffing, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and service provider and does not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, disability, political affiliation or belief, or any other protected class. We are committed to the principles of Equal Opportunity Employment and are dedicated to making employment decisions based on merit and value, for ourselves, our client companies, and the candidates we represent. For opportunities located in a region that have enacted fair chance, arrest or conviction-based employment ordinances, Scion Staffing proactively follows the enacted guidance and considers for employment all qualified applications with arrest and conviction records. We engage in socially conscious business practices and believe that diverse, inclusive, and non-biased talent and recruitment processes are foundational to the success of Scion as well as every client organization with whom we partner.