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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Platform Engineer (GitLab, Kubernetes, JFrog Artifactory) - **Company:** HonorVet Technologies - **Location:** Kirkland, WA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $156,000.0 - $166,400.0 - **Contract:** Temporary to permanent - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Computing Platforms, Systems Engineering, Architectural Patterns, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Border Gateway Protocol, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Linux, Disaster Recovery, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Performance Tuning, Reliability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering Practices, Prometheus, Zero Trust Network Access, Tripwire, Google Cloud, Istio, System Availability, Gitlab, Containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Free and Open-Source Software, Machine Learning Operations, Terraform, Dynatrace, Artifactory, Golang - **Published:** July 10, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us0f0c41b8fa0c8ffeb50fe73a7dfc748f ## About the Role * BS in computer science or equivalent experience * 7+ years operating and architecting enterprise-scale platforms * 5+ years of self-managed GitLab experience, including Geo, high availability, and disaster recovery * 5+ years of Artifactory experience, including Hub/Edge, federation, and enterprise deployments * 3+ years of deep Kubernetes experience, including operators, CRDs, service mesh, and multi-cluster environments * 7+ years of expert Linux experience, including kernel, networking, and performance tuning * PostgreSQL high availability experience, such as Patroni, and advanced networking knowledge, including BGP, anycast, and zero-trust architectures Additional Requirements: Cloud-Native Expertise * Deep knowledge of cloud computing, infrastructure, and architecture patterns * Experience with major cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and GCP, and their managed services * Experience with cloud-native tooling, including Kubernetes operators, Helm, ArgoCD, and Flux * Experience with service mesh technologies, including Istio, and infrastructure-as-code tools, including Terraform * Experience with cloud-native observability, including Prometheus, and distributed tracing * Experience with cloud-native security, including OPA, Trivy, and SBOM practices * Production-grade automation experience with Python, Go, and Bash * CI/CD platform design experience at scale * Experience with FedRAMP IL4/IL5 * Proven mentorship and team development experience * Strong communication and cross-team influence skills * Growth mindset, humility, and commitment to continuous development Preferred * Open-source contributions to Kubernetes, GitLab, or Artifactory projects * Experience with eBPF observability/security, WebAssembly, or MLOps * Published technical writing or conference talks * Developer platform or platform-as-a-service experience * SRE practices and chaos engineering experience. ## Description This Staff Systems Engineer role owns strategy and execution for client's critical developer platforms, including enterprise GitLab supporting 3,000+ users and JFrog Artifactory. 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