Hims And Hers

Sr. Staff Platform Engineer

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About this role

Hims And Hers is hiring for a Sr. Staff Platform Engineer role (full-time). See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • 12+ years in Platform, Infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles, including demonstrated ownership of at least one initiative that spanned multiple teams or business units, not just a single team's roadmap.
  • Deep, production-proven expertise in Kubernetes/EKS, service mesh (Istio strongly preferred — mTLS, traffic shaping, sidecar architecture, multi-cluster rollout), and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or similar) at mea…
  • A track record of leading complex, multi-quarter technical programs from architecture through execution — including the ability to produce the kind of cost/risk analysis and phased proposal that secures leadership buy-i…
  • Experience debugging and resolving production incidents in distributed, multi-hop systems (e.g., proxy/sidecar-layer failures, cross-service auth issues, environment-specific config drift between staging and production).
  • Proficiency in at least one of Go, Python, TypeScript, or Java, with the judgment to know when to write code yourself versus when to set direction and delegate.
  • A demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority — driving alignment across engineering orgs that don't report to you, and building the kind of technical credibility that makes other senior engineers want to…
  • Experience mentoring Staff-level engineers and shaping how a broader engineering org approaches system design, not just your immediate team.
  • Experience with AI-native platform tooling: agentic tooling, MCP-backed APIs and golden paths for deploying AI agents in production.

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