Staff Platform Engineer
Company
Instabug
Date Posted
27-11-2025
Location
Remote
Job Purpose:
You’ll be part of a high-impact, cross-functional team focused on building platform foundations that make Luciq’s products resilient, observable, and scalable.
Job Responsibilities:
- Design and build scalable infrastructure on AWS leveraging Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern DevOps patterns (IaC, GitOps, self-service clusters).
- Develop and evolve the internal observability platform (metrics, logs, traces, profiling, and business telemetry) to proactively detect issues and highlight optimization opportunities.
- Lead cost-optimization and performance-efficiency initiatives, building automation and analytics pipelines to continuously reduce spend and surface insights.
- Partner with senior engineers and product teams to define reliability, availability, and scalability standards.
- Mentor and influence engineers across teams, helping raise the technical bar and guide architectural decisions across Luciq.
- Contribute to Luciq’s internal platform ecosystem, including developer tooling, build pipelines, and cloud governance automation.
Job Requirements:
- 8+ years in backend, DevOps, or platform engineering roles, with deep experience in AWS and Kubernetes.
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc .i).
- Proven hands-on experience designing or operating observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Mimir, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, ClickHouse, etc.).
- Solid understanding of cloud networking, autoscaling, cost control, and performance tuning.
- Exposure to FinOps frameworks and AWS Cost Explorer, BigQuery billing exports, or custom cost pipelines
- Programming experience in Go, Python, or similar, especially for building automation or internal tooling.
- Track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives or mentoring engineers at scale.
- A growth mindset and passion for building platforms that empower other teams to move faster and safer.
- Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid infrastructure.
Bonus:
- Familiarity with AI-driven observability, anomaly detection, or predictive scaling systems.
- Contributions to open-source observability or infrastructure projects.
NB:
- This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. All applicants must have valid, existing authorization to work in the country they live in.
- Our target pool is remote developers working in time zones that are close to the Egypt time zone.