# Senior Platform Engineer, Build & Run

Medallia is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to build and operate its platform with an engineering-led, SRE approach. The role focuses on production automation, platform lifecycle ownership across Kubernetes, cloud, and on-prem environments, troubleshooting, infrastructure and database hygiene, and incident response. Responsibilities Build automation and tooling that eliminates manual ops work, not scripts that patch over problems Use AI coding assistants and agentic workflows as a core part of your daily engineering, not a novelty Own platform lifecycle: provisioning, deployment (canary, blue/green, rollout), scaling, and decommissioning across Kubernetes, cloud, and on-prem Troubleshoot full-stack production issues, from database to API to infra Drive database and infrastructure hygiene: cloning, migration, decommissioning, orphan cleanup, without breaking production Sit in the on-call rotation and own escalations end to end Move fast without cutting corners. Meticulous execution under time pressure is the job, not the exception Skills 5+ years in SRE, software development, or platform engineering, with real hands-on coding, not just scripting glue Demonstrated development exp

- **Id**: 3934981
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/medallia-senior-platform-engineer-build-run>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: McLean, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-07T17:50:15Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T12:20:30Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-08T12:20:30Z
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3168
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Customer & Retention Analytics, Survey & Forms Software

## Company

- **Id**: 171863
- **Name**: Medallia
- **Domain**: medallia.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/medallia>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Welcome to the Jungle

## Salary

- **Min**: 135000
- **Max**: 180000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 180000

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **ArgoCD** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Blue-Green Deployment** — Optional: no
- **Cassandra** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **CloudFormation** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: no
- **Helm** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-08T06:20:10Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-08T12:20:30Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 12 · green card filings: 6; Filings 12m: 12

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 180000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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