Sr. Staff Platform Engineer

The role

We're looking for a Senior Staff Platform Engineer to set technical direction for our platform, not just build within it. This is the most senior IC role on the team: you'll own architecture for our most consequential, cross-org infrastructure initiatives, and be the person other senior and staff engineers look to when a design decision needs to hold up across every team that depends on it. Recent and current flagship work at this level includes leading the Istio service mesh rollout as single-threaded owner across the entire organization; shaping the architecture behind our Multi-Region Resilience Program; and owning the technical direction of our AI-enriched Service Catalog.

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Sr. Staff Platform Engineer

Hims & Hers, US - Remote

Posted pay

$250K–$280K

a year

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This base pay is above the median for staff infrastructure, platform and SRE jobs that are remote in the US.

Median: $230K a year
Other jobs in the group: 141

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Location: US - Remote
Work type: Remote
Level: Staff
Experience: 12+ years
Skills in the job text: Python
TypeScript
Kubernetes
Java
Go
Terraform
Posted: Oct 7, 2026
Last check: 3 h ago
Job type: Infra, platform & SRE

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What you will do

Own group-critical platform initiatives: Take single-threaded ownership of multi-quarter, cross-org programs — service mesh adoption across independent clusters and business units, multi-region resilience strategy, and foundational platform initiatives. Align systems and abstractions to long-term organizational strategy.
Set direction others build on: Define the architectural patterns, golden paths, and platform primitives (Istio mTLS/traffic policy, AI agent golden paths, MCP-backed service APIs) that other engineers implement against. Create shared components that improve delivery consistency across teams rather than one-off solutions per squad.
Lead through hands-on technical excellence: Stay deeply engaged in the hardest parts of the systems you own — debugging production incidents at the mesh layer, hardening migration tooling, resolving cross-team architectural conflicts — earning credibility through visible, high-quality technical work rather than through title alone.
Drive execution across organizational boundaries: Coordinate rollouts that depend on multiple engineering orgs contributing resources on a schedule (e.g., a named engineering champion per business unit for a service mesh migration). Anticipate systemic blockers — resourcing gaps, conflicting migration sequencing, environment drift between staging and production — and resolve them before they stall the program.
Own testing infrastructure strategy end-to-end: Serve as DRI for how engineering teams validate changes before production, spanning iteration environments, pre-prod confidence gates, and multi-service validation for cross-service changes.
Mentor Staff and Senior engineers: Coach engineers below you on system design, migration strategy, and how to navigate ambiguity in cross-team initiatives. Raise the technical bar of the org by example, not just by review.
Drive org-wide reduction of technical debt and cost: Lead large-scale infrastructure consolidations and migrations (CI/CD platform changes, artifact registry modernization, dependency upgrades) end-to-end, with the rollout discipline, cost modeling, and stakeholder communication that a multi-hundred-repo change demands.
Establish the metrics that prove platform investment works: Define and drive adoption of the leading indicators — adoption rate, incident trends, cost trajectory, developer sentiment — that let leadership see platform work as a business asset, not overhead.

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