Senior Platform Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join the team. You will help develop and evolve the infrastructure and developer platform that supports Artsy’s product teams. This includes challenges across Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and developer workflows.

Our platform is continuously evolving, and this role will play a key part in shaping how we run and scale Kubernetes on AWS high-availability infrastructure, including Kubernetes for orchestration, Postgres and MongoDB databases, RabbitMQ, and Airflow. The platform is core to Artsy’s ability to ship reliably and efficiently, and this role will be responsible for defining the systems, practices, and tooling that enable teams to build, deploy, and operate services at scale. Improving scalability, operability, and developer workflows over time.

Our platform relies on AWS for cloud infrastructure, with Kubernetes at its core. We use Docker for local development, Terraform for infrastructure as code, and CircleCI to power our CI/CD pipelines. We leverage Cloudflare for edge security and traffic management. We also use internal tooling to provide a consistent and streamlined interface for deploying and operating services on Kubernetes. For observability, we use Datadog for metrics and monitoring, Google Cloud logging for log aggregation, and Sentry for application-level error tracking and performance insights.

This role is fully remote, and we're open to candidates located anywhere across the LATAM region.

• You’ll own and evolve our Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure platform, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and usability.

• You’ll help shape how we run Kubernetes on AWS, improving cluster architecture, deployment patterns, and operational practices.

• You’ll design and improve CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows to enable fast, safe, and repeatable deployments.

• You’ll own a self-service infrastructure and design and improve it to allow teams to operate independently without creating bottlenecks.

• You’ll work cross-functionally with product engineers to understand their needs and enable them through tooling, automation, and best practices.

• You enjoy building and evolving platforms that enable other engineers to move faster and more safely.

• You have experience working with Kubernetes in production environments (ideally EKS on AWS).

• You have strong experience with CI/CD systems and believe in automation-first workflows.

• You have worked in a platform or infrastructure role where you provided both tooling and guidance to product teams.

• You are comfortable owning systems while collaborating closely with other teams and avoiding siloed ways of working.
  

• Have experience building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure

• Have experience with observability tooling (e.g., Datadog, Papertrail, etc)

• Have experience optimizing cloud infrastructure for cost and performance

• Have experience with security best practices in cloud-native environments

• Have experience with cloud migrations

• Prefer working in isolation rather than collaborating with product teams

• Expect platform teams to operate as a ticket-driven service layer

• Are not interested in improving developer experience or enabling others

• Prefer manual processes over automation and CI/CD-driven workflows

• Develop a strong understanding of Artsy’s platform, Kubernetes clusters, and CI/CD systems

• Contribute to evolving how Kubernetes is operated and scaled within AWS

• Identify and deliver improvements to developer workflows, deployment systems, and platform reliability

• Partner with product teams to increase their autonomy and effectiveness

We know no one is a perfect match on paper, so if you’re passionate about this role, please apply! We’re excited to learn how your skills, experiences, and insights could make a difference.

Please Note: We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in . We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Our standard interview process looks like:

1. Talent Acquisition Interview

2. Hiring Manager Interview

3. Technical skills/ Live assessment with Engineering

4. Team Interview with a close collaborator (focused on the core skills for the role and our values)

5. Final Interview with Leadership

If you are selected to interview for the Senior Platform Engineer position, we will share a detailed guide on what you can expect from the hiring process and how to prepare for each stage.

Artsy's engineering principles are open source. We encourage knowledge building and sharing within the larger tech community through open source software, blog posts, and other free resources. Artsy would rather proudly discover (and improve) an existing tool than build it ourselves from scratch. Through our work, we try to create more value than we capture. That means that when we learn something new, we try to share that knowledge through blog posts and open source documentation. A successful candidate will bring their own unique perspective to help us achieve this mission.

Artsy has five core values that will inform your experience at Artsy.

For the Love of Art: We show relentless curiosity, empathy, and passion for collectors, artists, gallerists, and the art market. We take action to make the art world more fair and welcoming.

Own Our Outcomes: We are all individual owners of Artsy’s shared success. We are resourceful and resilient, and to get the job done, we each take responsibility for our outcomes.

Lead with Openness: We trust in our teammates. We seek diverse perspectives, communicate authentically, and act with integrity. A more open art world starts with us. 

Transform Together: Our mission asks us to challenge the status quo. We embrace feedback, learning, and change so that we can transform our industry, our company, and ourselves.

Impact Over Perfection: Using both art and science, we debate and decide swiftly and iterate on our plans as we learn. To make the biggest impact, we prioritize speed and clarity of action over perfection.

Artsy is an equal opportunity employer. We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, disability, and veteran status.