Platform Engineer

impact.com is the world’s leading commerce partnership marketing platform, transforming the way businesses grow by enabling them to discover, manage, and scale partnerships across the entire customer journey. From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, impact.com empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships. Its award-winning products—Performance (affiliate), Creator (influencer), and Advocate (customer referral)—unify every type of partner into one integrated platform. As consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from people and communities they trust, impact.com helps brands show up where it matters most. Today, over 5,000 global brands, including Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oréal, and Fanatics, rely on impact.com to power more than 225,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results.

You'll join the Shared Services and Infrastructure team as we scale the platform layer to support 600+ product engineers. Right now, the infrastructure that powers everything - Kubernetes clusters, VPCs, compute, storage, shared services - is the single point of failure for every developer-facing capability the platform team builds. You'll be a core contributor to designing, deploying and operating that substrate. You'll write production-quality Java code, own implementation of infrastructure abstractions, operate mission-critical systems, and work alongside senior engineers to continuously improve how the platform scales. This is solid mid-level infrastructure engineering work: enough ownership to move the needle, enough guidance to keep growing.

• →Implement infrastructure abstractions that service teams use to express their requirements: translating high-level requests into IaC parameters and production-grade deployments based on designs and guidance from senior engineers.
• →Deploy and operate platform-layer infrastructure: VPCs, compute pools, storage, Kubernetes clusters and the networking that connects them, using IaC modules provided by Cloud Operations.
• →Own the operation and maintenance of managed pub/sub messaging systems (e.g. Kafka) that service teams depend on.
• →Consume Cloud Operations' IaC modules effectively and feed back operational lessons and enhancement requests.
• →Write production-quality Java code that implements infrastructure abstractions, with security and best practices baked in by design.
• →Contribute to the team's infrastructure standards and practices: participate in code reviews, help improve operational runbooks, and share lessons learned.

• 1–2+ years of software development experience with Java or similar languages.
• Strong software-engineering fundamentals: you write clean, testable code and understand how to build reliable systems.
• 1+ year of hands-on experience deploying software to and operating in a cloud environment.
• Comfort with Linux command line and solid understanding of network and cloud computing concepts.
• Familiarity with IaC concepts and hands-on experience with IaC or GitOps tools such as Terraform, Argo CD or equivalent.
• A collaborative approach: you work well with senior engineers, ask good questions, and incorporate feedback.
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent professional experience.