Senior Platform Engineer

<h3><strong>Who We Are</strong></h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re building OpenHands, an open-source AI platform that empowers engineering teams to accelerate development, automate workflows, and integrate intelligent coding assistance into real-world software delivery.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">The Platform team is responsible for the infrastructure and systems that power OpenHands, including our self-hosted enterprise product. It's a small, senior team and you'll have real ownership over meaningful parts of the platform, working on hard problems in infrastructure, orchestration, and enterprise deployment.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h3><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build and maintain our self-hosted deployment product: installation, configuration, and upgrades</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Support customer POCs and self-hosted deployments, helping ensure successful rollouts in diverse environments</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Write clean, well-tested, production-grade code and take features from design through to deployment</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own the Cloud infrastructure running our SaaS product</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Debug complex cross-system issues and deliver sustainable fixes</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Collaborate closely with teammates across Platform and the broader engineering team to execute on the platform roadmap</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Contribute to infrastructure standards, observability, and reliability practices</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Help grow a strong engineering culture through code review, documentation, and knowledge sharing<br></p></li></ul><h3><strong>What You Bring</strong></h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">6+ years of professional software engineering experience</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Deep experience with Kubernetes and Helm; these are core to how we build and operate OpenHands</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Solid understanding of networking, security, and operational experience with PostgreSQL and Redis</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Familiarity with authentication and identity systems (SSO, SAML, OIDC, RBAC) is a plus</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience with Replicated or similar embedded Kubernetes Installer platforms is a plus</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Track record of shipping reliable, production-grade platform or infrastructure systems</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Interest in AI/LLM-powered developer tools and open-source software (bonus if you've contributed to OSS)</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h3><strong>Why Join OpenHands</strong></h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Competitive compensation: $175,000 - $225,000 base salary, plus equity and bonus</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Remote-first with flexible hours (core hours 12–4pm ET | 4–8pm UTC)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Fully covered U.S. health, vision, and dental insurance</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Unmetered PTO + holidays</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">High-impact role with early ownership of architecture, product, and culture</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work with world-class engineers, product builders, and AI researchers</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Contribute to open source used by developers around the world</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">A culture built on kindness, candor, autonomy, and learning<br></p></li></ul><h3><strong>We Welcome All Applicants</strong></h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re committed to building an inclusive, supportive environment where everyone can thrive. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic. If you’re passionate about building great developer tools and excited about the future of AI-powered software development, we’d love to hear from you.</p>

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