Senior Platform Engineer

The Motley Fool is a purpose-driven financial services company on a mission to make the world smarter, happier, and richer. For 30 years we have been helping people make better investment decisions through transparency, education, and Foolish fun. We are a fast-moving, collaborative team that values high-quality work, curiosity, and initiative. We care deeply about what we do, and we are driven by the impact our work has on real people’s financial futures.

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer who excels at designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable systems and infrastructure. As a key member of The Motley Fool’s CloudOps team, you will play a crucial role in building and managing our AWS cloud infrastructure and supporting services. You will oversee application deployment pipelines, maintain multiple environments, and help shape the best solutions for recurring challenges. This role is technical and hands-on, requiring a deep understanding of cloud platforms, networking, software design, operations, automation, and containerization.

In this role, you can expect to spend roughly:

• 40% modernizing and enhancing our platform end to end, from CDN to Kubernetes and everything in between.

• 30% collaborating with development teams to troubleshoot issues and improve performance for our Next.js and Django based applications.

• 20% accelerating our CI/CD processes to reduce time-to-market for stakeholders.

• 10% optimizing infrastructure and application costs.

• 7+ years of experience in platform engineering within a product-focused company.

• Startup experience: You understand the challenges that come with scaling and maturing a platform.

• Hands-on experience running self-hosted Next.js and Django applications on Kubernetes.

• A focus on developer experience, including improving local development workflows and mentoring team members.

• Strong background in automation and observability, including managing code lifecycle from development to production and using tools like CloudWatch and Datadog to optimize performance across environments.

• Advanced Terraform skills for building reproducible, scalable environments, including AWS-hosted applications, event-driven systems, containerized services on Kubernetes, and serverless functions.

• Experience supporting data, AI, or machine learning workloads in the cloud is a plus.

This is a dynamic environment where rapid communication, inventive problem-solving, and creative solutions are both essential and encouraged. We strive for excellence in our work while also valuing a strong work-life balance, ensuring sustainable growth and long-term success for both our team and our projects.

Please note, no sponsorship is available for this position. You must reside in, or be willing to relocate to, one of these states for employment: Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington DC, and Wisconsin.

Below you’ll see a few of our perks, but check out our Careers Site for the complete list: 

• Flexible, remote work environment (*see our open states above)
• No “vacation policy” (not to be confused with a “No vacation” policy)
• Generous fully-paid parental leave
• $1,000 annually to invest in stocks of your choice
• Super low premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Comprehensive compensation package, including company equity