Staff Platform Engineer

The role

Our Engineering Automation & AI Toolchain team builds the internal developer platform that consists of Formation (our GitOps-driven internal developer platform), Patina (the toolchain and developer-experience layer) and Manifold (the configuration and telemetry pipeline that ties them together).

The design problem to solve is running it efficiently, comprehensively, and accurately, which means Day-2 operations engineered to hold up against company growth, product maturity, and the entropy that accumulates in anything left running. We are seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to own that problem: migrating a live legacy estate onto the platform, extending its reach into the parts of the company and toolchain it does not serve yet, and designing the operational regime that keeps all of it honest as it scales.

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Staff Platform Engineer

Form Energy, Berkeley, CA

Posted pay

$148K–$185K

a year

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This base pay is below the median for staff infrastructure, platform and SRE jobs in the Bay Area.

Median: $242K a year
Other jobs in the group: 307

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Location: Berkeley, CA
Work type: Onsite
Level: Staff
Experience: 7+ years
Skills in the job text: AWS
Kubernetes
Posted: 29 days ago
Last check: 9 h ago
Job type: Infra, platform & SRE

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Form Energy

Open tech jobs: 53
With posted pay: 79%
Median posted base: $148K–$193K

About Form Energy: funding, hiring and pay

Form Energy

About Form Energy: funding, hiring and pay

Company facts

Money raised: $1.2BSum of funding rounds on record
Newest round: Series GAug 12, 2026

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The role

What you need

7–10 years of related experience in infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
Demonstrated experience migrating production systems off legacy infrastructure and onto a new platform — sequencing, coexistence, cutover, and rollback — without disrupting the teams that depend on them.
Wide-ranging hands-on depth across AWS, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code — demonstrated experience resolving complex infrastructure problems that required in-depth evaluation of competing factors, not just applying a known procedure.
Demonstrated experience operating and scaling CI/CD and GitOps delivery systems, including leading incident response in complex, multi-system environments and converting failures into structural fixes.
Demonstrated experience leading technical work through others — directing engineers on an initiative, mentoring, and driving design review — and working effectively with partners outside your own area of expertise.
Enough hard-won depth to supervise AI-generated work: you can tell correct from merely plausible in infrastructure code and operational output, and you know which of its shortcuts are safe to take.

Humanity is a cornerstone of Form Energy’s culture, and we make sure our compensation and benefits reflect that. Form Energy offers competitive salaries, stock options, and a holistic benefits package to ensure all employees have what they need to thrive while working here.

When it comes to you and your family’s health, we cover 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees - and 80% of healthcare premiums for dependents. This starts from day one. We also offer at least 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents (up to 20 weeks for birthing parents), and generous vacation policies to give employees time to recharge when needed.

Form Energy is committed to maintaining the privacy of our applicants. Please be aware that we will never solicit sensitive personal information such as Social Security numbers or bank account details during the recruiting or hiring process.

Staff Platform Engineer

The role

Staff Platform Engineer

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