Senior Platform Engineer

Experience: 5+ years in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering.

We are building an Internal Developer Portal at Natera, and we are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help build it. This is a hands-on software engineering role: you will write the portal, the golden paths that run on it, and the integrations underneath, not just configure someone else’s tooling.

It is a genuine build, but not a blank page. A great deal of capability is already in production, reached today through hand-triggered GitLab pipelines, purpose-built internal UIs and wiki pages that carry the steps and the caveats. A significant part of this role is bringing that capability into the portal as first-class golden paths, re-envisioned rather than wrapped. A new interface over an old workflow does not get adopted. You will join an established Infrastructure Provisioning team inside a larger Platform Engineering organization, building alongside the engineers delivering it and working with the senior engineers who set technical direction.

Success is measured by one thing above all others: Developer adoption.

Build the Internal Developer Portal

• Platform Foundation: Contribute to the implementation of the portal platform, then take a major hand in developing and operating it as a product with real users, measured adoption and a roadmap.

• Service Catalog: Build a reliable system of record for our services and infrastructure, with ownership, relationships, and automated ingestion from source-of-truth systems rather than manual upkeep. A catalog nobody trusts is a catalog nobody uses.

• Integrations and Extensibility: Build the integrations that connect the portal to our cloud accounts, CI/CD systems, secrets management and internal APIs, and help document the patterns so other engineers can contribute integrations of their own.

Build Golden Paths, and Help Others Build Theirs

• Work Within the Framework: Help shape the golden path framework and build within it, using the templates, scaffolding, standards and guardrails the team defines, with networking, security, observability and compliance pre-wired in so every path inherits them.

• Build the Provisioning Paths: Be one of the main builders of the Infrastructure Provisioning golden paths. They are also the reference implementations other teams copy, so the quality of your work sets what others follow.

• Support Other Teams: Many golden paths will be built by the teams that own the domain. Help them do that well through worked examples, documentation, pairing and reviewing their contributions.

• Incorporate What Exists: Reimagine today’s pipelines, internal UIs and documented procedures as portal-native journeys, some built here, many by the owning teams. Start from how they are actually used, not how they are written up.

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