Senior Platform Engineer at Weight Watchers
$200,000–$215,000
Jul 5, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A greenfield platform engineering role focused on building an observability and incident response practice from scratch across a cloud environment running hundreds of services. The work centers on designing and deploying logging, metrics, tracing, and APM systems, establishing alerting and incident workflows, and reducing manual toil through automation and infrastructure-as-code. Suits an experienced SRE or platform engineer comfortable making independent architectural decisions.
Senior level · 5+ years · National · Full-time
Pay in the description: $200,000–$215,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The role is a greenfield SRE/Platform Engineering IC position focused on architecting and implementing an observability stack from scratch — it involves significant code/IaC authoring (codifying monitoring as infrastructure, building automation), which tips the classification toward 15-1252 Software Developers over 15-1244 (ops/admin). However, the operational and incident-management emphasis is real, so 15-1244 is a genuine runner-up.
No work location is specified beyond a hybrid policy and US pay range. The posting references Maryland, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island legal notices, suggesting candidates in those states are expected, but no single metro is identified — CBSA left blank.
The 'Required' section gates on deep expertise in at least one observability domain and hands-on experience with agent instrumentation (New Relic, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent). These are treated as hard gates; the named tools are interchangeable alternatives for the same requirement.
AWS, EKS, Docker, Terraform/CloudFormation, Kafka, RDS, and the open-source stack (Prometheus, ELK, Grafana, Jaeger) all appear under the 'Strongly Preferred' heading and are marked accordingly.
Compensation is stated as a base salary range of $200,000–$215,000 USD per year, plus benefits and an annual bonus; the bonus is not quantified.
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