Prolific - Platform Engineering Manager
Requirements
• Security and Compliance: Ensure our cloud environments remain secure and compliant with standards such as SOC2 and ISO-27001. • Security and Compliance: • Infrastructure Leadership: Proven experience leading teams in the infrastructure and SRE domains, with a track record of scaling platforms and people. • Infrastructure Leadership: • Technical Expertise: Several years of deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Terragrunt, Crossplane), with GitOps workflows using tools like ArgoCD. • Technical Expertise: • Reliability & Architecture: Solid understanding of complex infrastructure and application architecture, observability principles, and incident management. • Reliability & Architecture: • Stability & Velocity: Experience balancing the need for platform stability and reliability with the goal of increasing developer productivity and velocity. • Stability & Velocity: • Bridge Builder: Fluency in translating complex technical solutions and their feasibility into clear, compelling narratives for non-technical stakeholders. • Bridge Builder: • Our Technology Stack (You'll be working with these technologies): • Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS) • Cloud Platforms: • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Terragrunt, Crossplane • Infrastructure as Code: • Programming Languages: Python, JavaScript, TypeScript • Programming Languages: • Frameworks: Django Rest Framework, container-based services, Serverless architectures • Frameworks: • Databases: MongoDB, Postgres, ElasticSearch, and DynamoDB • Databases: • DevOps & Monitoring Tools: CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Celery, EventBridge, DataDog • DevOps & Monitoring Tools:
Responsibilities
• Unified Leadership: Provide leadership, coaching, and professional growth opportunities for one or more Platform teams, fostering a culture of high performance and ownership. • Unified Leadership: • Infrastructure Ownership: Drive the strategic direction for our infrastructure and platform ensuring robust management of our services like Kubernetes (GKE) clusters. Focus on continuous improvement, operational excellence, and innovation. • Infrastructure Ownership: • Champion SRE Culture: Own availability and embed SRE principles across the organization, including defining SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, and enhancing observability and incident remediation. • Champion SRE Culture: • Platform & Developer Experience: Own the developer-facing platform — golden paths, self-service infrastructure, and internal tooling — so teams can provision, deploy, and operate services safely and independently. Treat the platform as a product with its own roadmap and adoption metrics, not just a set of shared services.
Benefits
• We've built a unique platform that connects researchers and companies with a global pool of participants, enabling the collection of high-quality, ethically sourced human behavioral data and feedback. This data is the cornerstone of developing more accurate, nuanced, and aligned AI systems. • We believe that the next leap in AI capabilities won't come solely from scaling existing models but from integrating diverse human perspectives and behaviors into AI development. By providing this crucial human data infrastructure, Prolific is positioning itself at the forefront of the next wave of AI innovation—one that reflects the breadth and the best of humanity. • Working for us will place you at the forefront of AI innovation, providing access to our unique human data platform and opportunities for groundbreaking research. Join us to enjoy a competitive salary, benefits, and remote working within our impactful, mission-driven culture. • Links to more information on Prolific • External Handbook
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