Cloud Engineer - Platform Engineering
Company Overview: Lightspeed is the leading provider of cloud-based software for dealerships, serving the Powersport, Marine, RV, Trailer, and Golf Car industries adding hundreds of dealerships to the Lightspeed community each year. Lightspeed’s Dealer Management Solution (DMS) enables dealerships to optimize their end-to-end business operations, including Sales, Parts, Service, Rentals, Payments, Accounting, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). When implemented into their daily operations, Lightspeed helps dealers increase their profitability by selling more units, service, and parts, all while creating a more streamlined experience for customers. Lightspeed is the most complete and integrated DMS in the industry with over 500 integrations with Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), aftermarket parts and accessory distributors and dozens of other software tools that a dealership may use to run their business. Uniquely designed by dealers for dealers, and refined over the past 4 decades, Lightspeed empowers over 4,500+ dealers across North America with the tools and technology they need to manage their dealerships. We're seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our platform engineering team as an embedded member of development squads. In this role, you'll work directly alongside application developers, enabling their success through self-service infrastructure platforms, GitOps automation, and AI-powered tooling. You'll manage infrastructure supporting 4,000+ EKS workloads in AWS while building the next generation of developer-focused platforms that dramatically increase velocity. This isn't a traditional infrastructure role. You'll be a strategic partner to developers, guiding cloud architecture decisions, building automation that eliminates toil, and leveraging AI to accelerate both infrastructure and application delivery. What you'll do: Platform Development & Developer Enablement Build and maintain self-service infrastructure platforms that empower developers to provision and manage their own AWS resources Work embedded within development squads as their cloud infrastructure guide and strategic partner Design and implement reusable Terraform modules that enable consistent, scalable infrastructure patterns Develop AI-powered automation tools that increase team velocity and reduce manual operational overhead Create developer-friendly abstractions over complex infrastructure using GitOps workflows Infrastructure as Code & GitOps Implement GitOps practices using ArgoCD and Helm for automated deployments across EKS clusters Build and maintain modular Terraform infrastructure supporting EKS, RDS PostgreSQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, and core AWS services Leverage AI tools to accelerate Terraform module development, code review, and documentation Design Terraform module libraries that balance flexibility with guardrails Establish CI/CD pipelines that enable developers to safely deploy infrastructure changes Cloud Architecture &...