Staff Platform Engineer

About this role

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Your wellbeing, our mission. Join a company shaping a healthier world.</strong></p> <p><strong>GET TO KNOW US</strong></p> <p>At Wellhub we're revolutionizing workplace wellness. Our platform connects employees worldwide to the best partners for fitness, mindfulness, therapy, nutrition, and sleep—all in one simple subscription. Headquartered in NYC with team members in 11 countries, we’re on a mission to make every company a wellness company.</p> <p>We believe work should be fulfilling, inspiring, and balanced. Here, you’ll find a team that values wellbeing, collaboration, and different perspectives, where passion and creativity push boundaries to create real impact. Your contributions will help shape a healthier, more balanced world for you and millions of people globally.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Join us in redefining the future of wellbeing!</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>THE OPPORTUNITY</strong></p> <p>We are hiring a&nbsp;<strong>Staff Platform Engineer </strong>in our <strong>Platform Engineering team</strong> in <strong>Brazil</strong>! This is a<strong> Remote – Brazil</strong> position, meaning you can work from anywhere within the country. Please note that this role is only open to candidates in Brazil.&nbsp;</p> <p>The mission is to help us build a global, secure, recoverable, and cost-efficient infrastructure that enables engineering teams to scale our product autonomously.<br>Platform Engineering builds tooling and automation to eliminate operational processes or drive them to as near zero as possible. We want to enable the most reliable, real-time logistics platform possible. We want the Wellhub technology stack to be completely autonomous but resilient and reliable.<br>We are continuously evaluating infrastructure-related operational processes, looking for opportunities to make it as frictionless as possible, and delivering intuitive and reliable tools for other teams to use in their daily activities. We strive to positively impact a large number of engineers in our organization throughout our deliveries.<br>You will have contact with the most popular and modern technologies in the cloud native industry such as Kubernetes, Crossplane, Kafka, AWS, Github Actions, ArgoCD, Hashicorp Vault, Istio, Prometheus, and Grafana. You will also be able to code in Golang, or Python to build and maintain our products and tools.<strong><br></strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>YOUR IMPACT</strong></p> <ul> <li>Help to build a global, secure, scalable, and cost-effective Cloud platform using Kubernetes in AWS.</li> <li>Develop and evolve Kubernetes operators and other cloud-native automation in Kubernetes.</li> <li>Build products and tools enabling engineering teams to create and maintain their cloud resources autonomously.</li> <li>Help to ensure security and compliance by delivering secure products and implementing DevSecOps integrations.</li> <li>Improve observability, reliability, and cost awareness.</li> <li>Support engineering teams in the products and tools usage.</li> <li>Build and maintain a modern CI/CD set of tools and services.</li> <li>Keep all the Kubernetes clusters highly available and reliable.</li> <li>Contribute to our product documentation (e.g. user guide, configurations, operations, and troubleshooting procedures)</li> <li>Participate in the definition of standards, RFCs (Request for Comments), guidelines and best practices.</li> <li>Live the mission: inspire and empower others by genuinely caring for your own wellbeing and your colleagues. Bring wellbeing to the forefront of work, and create a supportive environment where everyone feels comfortable taking care of themselves, taking time off, and finding work-life balance.</li> </ul> <p><strong>WHO YOU ARE</strong></p> <ul> <li>Proven technical expertise in AWS cloud services, Kubernetes, and software engineering.</li> <li>In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes and its ecosystem.&nbsp;CNCF Kubernetes Certifications (e.g. CKA, CKS, or CKAD) will be considered a plus.</li> <li>Comprehensive understanding of observability systems.</li> <li>Experience with operator-managed Infrastructure as Code, preferably cross-plane or Kubernetes Operators.</li> <li>Ability to write software for production environments.</li> <li>Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, and proven experience in identifying solutions for complex problems.</li> <li>Collaboration and learning-driven mindset;</li> <li>Deep expertise in the AWS ecosystem, and if you have AWS certifications, it will be considered a plus.</li> <li>Excellent communication skills in both English and Portuguese, both verbally and in writing</li> </ul> <p>Might suit you very well if you are interested in:</p> <ul> <li>Changing and improving things.</li> <li>Solving complex problems gracefully.</li> <li>Reading and writing good documentation.</li> <li>Staying current on industry-leading practices and technologies.</li> <li>Building something that you are proud of and would like to work with.</li> </ul> <p>We recognize that individuals approach job applications differently. We strongly encourage all aspiring applicants to go for it, even if they don't match the job description 100%. We welcome your application and will be delighted to explore if you could be a great fit for our team. For this specific role, please note that prior experience in AWS, Kubernetes, and containers are mandatory requirements (change this last sentence according to the core requirements of the role).</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>WHAT WE OFFER YOU</strong></p> <p>With thoughtful benefits, emotional wellbeing resources, and a culture that empowers you to take ownership of your role and your wellbeing, we create an environment where you can thrive in all dimensions of your life.&nbsp;</p> <p>Our flexible benefits program allows you to customize some of the benefits, according to your needs!</p> <p><strong>Our benefits include:</strong></p> <p><strong>WELLHUB:</strong> Free Gold+