Cloud Platform Engineer

An overview of this role

As a Cloud Platform Engineer on the Runway team, you'll help design, build, and maintain the infrastructure and developer tooling that powers our engineering organization. You'll advance our Kubernetes-based platform, mature our GitOps practices, and expand infrastructure as code adoption across the business. This hands-on role brings together infrastructure, automation, and developer experience, helping application teams deploy and operate their services.

What you’ll do

• Operate and improve production Kubernetes clusters across cloud environments, managing upgrades, scaling, and reliability throughout the cluster lifecycle.
• Own and extend Argo CD-based GitOps workflows, maintaining ApplicationSets, managing sync policies, and enforcing deployment standards across environments.
• Write, review, and maintain reusable Terraform modules, with clear practices for state management and drift detection.
• Monitor platform health, respond to incidents, conduct post-mortems, and improve availability, performance, and observability.
• Collaborate with application teams to onboard services, and create documentation, runbooks, and self-service tooling that improves developer productivity.
• Implement role-based access control, network policies, and secrets management to meet infrastructure security and compliance requirements.
• Integrate platform capabilities with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to support end-to-end delivery workflows.

What you’ll bring

• Experience operating Kubernetes in production and working with at least one major cloud provider: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with Argo CD or comparable GitOps tooling, such as Flux.
• Proficiency in Terraform for cloud infrastructure provisioning, including remote state, workspaces, and module design.
• Ability to write scripts and automation in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Familiarity with Helm for Kubernetes package management.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals, including the Domain Name System (DNS), load balancing, ingress, and service mesh concepts.
• Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to document systems and collaborate across teams.
• Optional: experience with managed, multi-cluster, or multi-region Kubernetes, service meshes, policy as code, observability, or Kubernetes-native infrastructure as code; open source or platform tooling contributions; or relevant certifications.

About the team

The Runway team builds and maintains infrastructure and developer tooling for GitLab's engineering organization. Its work centers on a Kubernetes-based platform, GitOps delivery practices, and infrastructure as code. The team collaborates with application teams to onboard services and improve developer productivity through documentation, runbooks, and self-service tooling.