Staff Client Platform Engineer (CPE) (Remote)
Leads IT operations for a global mineral exploration company, managing endpoints, software licensing, and identity systems while coaching a small team to automate and scale support across 10+ countries.
- Compensation
- $150K–$180K / yr
- Location
- Remote - US
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 7+ years in client platform engineering, IT engineering, or similar roles combining hands-on technical depth with operational ownership
- Deep experience with MDM platforms, particularly Jamf (macOS) and Microsoft Intune (Windows): policy configuration, automated enrollment, compliance enforcement, and ideally infrastructure-as-code app
- Strong experience with identity and access management (Okta strongly preferred): SSO integration, SCIM provisioning, access request workflows, and lifecycle automation
- Hands-on experience building zero-touch provisioning, automated reimaging, and self-service deployment workflows at scale
- Experience with endpoint monitoring and fleet management at scale, including remote/distributed environments
- Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar) for building automation and tooling
- Experience managing or building tooling for SaaS licensing and renewals: utilization tracking, right-sizing, renewal pipelines, and vendor coordination
- Technical leadership experience: you have mentored engineers or support staff and led projects end-to-end without formal authority
- Proven ability to take ownership: you build the roadmap, do the research, implement the solution, write the documentation, and communicate the rollout
- Strong prioritization instincts — you can look at a long list of IT initiatives and distinguish what actually matters from nice-to-haves, and explain why
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills — comfortable working across disciplines with engineers, scientists, legal, finance, and leadership in a remote-first environment
- Intellectually curious; eager to learn about the substance of mineral exploration and exploration technology
- Comfort with ambiguity and a dynamic work environment; eagerness to take on an evolving range of responsibilities at a fast-growing company
- Experience supporting global teams across multiple time zones is a strong plus
- Familiarity with Google Workspace administration, CrowdStrike, Datadog, or the MacAdmins open-source ecosystem (osquery, Santa, Nudge, AutoPkg) is a plus
Full description
About the Company
In the coming decades, demand for critical minerals such as copper, lithium, and cobalt will continue to grow. These minerals are needed to build electric infrastructure, vehicles, data centers, and electronics. However, the mining industry is making 10x fewer discoveries per dollar spent on exploration compared to 30 years ago because the easy-to-find, near surface deposits have largely been discovered.
KoBold was founded to be the first AI native mineral exploration, mine development, and technology development company. Our goal is to turn mineral exploration into a repeatable science to discover the minerals the world needs—by integrating artificial intelligence, human intelligence, and new technology. Our multidisciplinary teams of data scientists, engineers, and geologists work together to build data systems, design new sensors, and establish industry-leading workflows to develop and test subsurface predictions on our exploration projects.
Our first discovery, Mingomba, is a high-grade copper deposit in Zambia, found after spending materially less than industry average. We are developing Mingomba with the same technical rigor that we apply to exploration. The Mingomba team brings together mine and processing engineers, geologists, data scientists, software engineers, and community, health & safety, construction, and operations specialists. By combining industry knowledge and cutting edge technology, we are developing Mingomba into a world class project that has safer and more predictable outcomes for ourselves, partners, and communities. It is expected to create thousands of good jobs for generations.
KoBold runs exploration programs in eight countries, all with the potential for another discovery.
KoBold is privately held; investors include institutional asset managers T. Rowe Price and Canada Pension Plan Investments; technology venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BOND Capital, Durable Capital, StepStone, and Standard Investments; and strategic natural resources companies BHP and Mitsubishi.
About the Role
KoBold's ~280 geoscientists, data scientists, and engineers work remote-first across North America, Zambia, the DRC, Sweden, and field exploration sites around the world. As we scale, we are moving IT from reactive, break/fix support toward proactive, automated operations that work seamlessly across geographies — including field sites with limited connectivity.
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As our Staff Client Platform Engineer, you are the senior-most hands-on engineer for KoBold's client platform: the endpoint fleet (macOS via Jamf, Windows via Intune), the identity layer (Okta, Google Workspace), and the SaaS application portfolio that connects to it. You will build zero-touch provisioning, treat configuration as code, instrument the fleet so we find problems before employees do, and automate the employee lifecycle so new hires are fully productive on day one — whether they sit in Denver or at a drill camp in Zambia.