Senior Platform Engineer
Focused · Denver, Colorado, United States
Posted 29 days ago · $130,000 - $180,000
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 29 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 implementing and optimizing infrastructure solutions, including managing Kubernetes clusters and building CI/CD pipelines. The role also involves establishing SRE practices, deploying observability infrastructure across major cloud platforms, and automating processes within CI/CD pipelines. Candidates will work closely with clients to enhance their infrastructure and ensure system reliability.
- 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 Denver 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 for this role is $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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