Senior Platform Engineer
Focused · Chicago, Illinois, United States
Posted 15 days ago · $130,000 - $180,000
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 15 days Focused's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 50% of Focused's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Focused
- high 15 stale, 1 reposted of 18 open
- Hiring momentum
- 20 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Focused's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Focused.
About this role
The Senior Platform Engineer at Focused will be responsible for enhancing and scaling client infrastructure through platform engineering, site reliability engineering, and cloud DevOps practices. Day-to-day tasks will include implementing Infrastructure as Code solutions, managing Kubernetes clusters, building CI/CD pipelines, and establishing observability frameworks across various cloud platforms. The role also involves incident management and optimizing performance and scalability of systems.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Focused as an employer.
What you need
- 3+ years of Platform Engineering or DevOps experience
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, CDK)
- Strong experience with CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD)
- Hands-on experience with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their observability services
- Experience with container technologies (Docker, Podman) and container registries
- Experience implementing SRE practices including error budgets and toil metrics
Nice to have
- Understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs) and their application in DevOps
- Knowledge of vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Experience with AI/ML model deployment and monitoring in production environments
- Strong technical writing and documentation skills
- Ability to present complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders
Worth weighing
- Role requires being in the Chicago office three days per week and up to 20% travel within the United States.
- Focused is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of the employment Visa process at this time.
- Base salary range is specified as $130,000 - $180,000.
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Listed by Focused on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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