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Senior Platform Engineer
HP IQ · San Francisco · United States
Posted: 9/23/2026 · On the employer's job feed since 10/11/2026
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Who We Are
HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates.
We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless.
We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset.
By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work.
Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work.
About The Role
As a Senior Platform Engineer at HP IQ, you will help build and evolve the infrastructure, tooling, and shared platform capabilities that enable our engineering teams to develop and operate reliable, secure, and scalable services across cloud and edge environments.
You will work closely with application, services, AI/ML, and security teams to improve developer velocity, production readiness, reliability, and operational efficiency across a heterogeneous infrastructure footprint.
What You Might Do
- Design, build, and maintain shared infrastructure and platform capabilities across cloud and edge environments.
- Build automation and self-service tooling that improves engineering velocity and operational consistency.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code, deployment workflows, and environment provisioning.
- Partner with engineering teams on production readiness, including reliability, security, observability, scalability, and recovery.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, incident response, and operational tooling across distributed environments.
- Automate repetitive operational tasks and reduce infrastructure complexity.
- Help define platform architecture, engineering standards, and technical roadmaps.
- Participate in an on-call rotation for systems owned by the team.
Essential Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, Production Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a similar role.
- Strong experience building and operating production systems across cloud, on-prem, or edge environments.
- Experience with containers, Kubernetes, networking, and distributed systems.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and deployment automation.
- Experience with CI/CD and modern observability practices.
- Strong software development and automation skills, preferably in Python or a similar language.
- Strong understanding of security, reliability, and production operations.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex systems across application, infrastructure, network, and hardware boundaries.
Preferred Skills
- Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure.
- Experience operating distributed systems across cloud and edge environments.
- Experience with secrets management, identity, PKI, or infrastructure security.
- Experience with highly available systems, distributed databases, and production data infrastructure.
- Experience partnering with application teams to improve architecture and production readiness.
Salary Range: $150,000 - $220,000
Compensation & Benefits (Full-Time Employees)
The salary range for this role is listed above. Final salary offered is based upon multiple factors including individual job-related qualifications, education, experience, knowledge and skills.
At HP IQ, we offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package, including:
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Long term/short term disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Life insurance
- Generous time off policies, including;
- 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
- 11 paid holidays
- Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)
Why HP IQ?
HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab, building the intelligence to empower humanity—reimagining how we work, create, and connect to shape the future of work.
- Innovative Work
Help shape the future of intelligent computing and workplace transformation. - Autonomy and Agility
Work with the speed and focus of a startup, backed by HP’s scale. - Meaningful Impact
Build AI-powered solutions that help people and organisations thrive. - Flexible Work Environment
Freedom and flexibility to do your best work. - Forward-Thinking Culture
We learn fast, stay future-focused, and imagine what comes next—together.
Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) Statement
HP, Inc. provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and prospective employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sexual orientation, age, disability, or status as a protected veteran, marital status, familial status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic predisposition or carrier status, uniformed service status, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by applicable national, federal, state, and local law(s).
Please be assured that you will not be subject to any adverse treatment if you choose to disclose the information requested. This information is provided voluntarily. The information obtained will be kept in strict confidence.
If you’d like more information about HP’s EEO Policy or your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click here: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law – Supplement
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