Lead Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

About Us:

Founded in 1992 in Dover, NH, Planet Fitness is one of the largest and fastest-growing franchisors and operators of fitness centers in the world by number of members and locations. As of March 31, 2026, Planet Fitness had approximately 21.5 million members and 2,909 clubs in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Canada, Panama, Mexico, Australia and Spain. The Company’s mission is to enhance people’s lives by providing a high-quality fitness experience in a welcoming, non-intimidating environment, which we call the Judgement Free Zone®. Approximately 90% of Planet Fitness clubs are owned and operated by independent business owners.

At Planet Fitness, our unique mission has always been to enhance people’s lives by providing a high-quality fitness experience in a welcoming, non-intimidating environment. And we’re proud of the amazing Planet Fitness team that supports our clubs and team members. They are comprised of dynamic, dedicated, and talented individuals who represent our values of integrity, transparency, passion, respect, and excellence (while having fun!) in everything they do.

Joining the PF family means being part of a company that cares about bettering the health and wellbeing of our communities. It means being a part of a supportive, engaging workforce with an inclusive culture that values diversity and creates an environment where everyone can feel they belong. It means encouraging professional growth and development. It means making true, lasting connections with your co-workers with celebrations, team building activities and engaging corporate events! It means creating a positive impact in our local communities through our Judgement Free Generation® philanthropic initiative. It means being part of a brand that you can be proud of!

For the past 30 years, we’ve helped millions of people in their fitness journey and revolutionized the industry along the way. And we’re just getting started!

Overview:

The Lead Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure plays a critical role in advancing the design, implementation, and evolution of secure, scalable, and automated infrastructure across Planet Fitness’s cloud environments. As a senior member of the team, this individual will drive platform initiatives, contribute to strategic planning, and ensure alignment with business goals.

Responsibilities include supporting weekly team coordination, leveraging the existing roadmap to guide priorities, and developing KPIs to measure platform performance and impact. This role requires deep technical expertise, cross-functional collaboration, and a proactive mindset to deliver reliable and efficient platform solutions.

This role follows a hybrid schedule and requires regular, in-person work at our Hampton, NH or Boston, MA office. Our hybrid model is M/T/W in office and TH/F are optional work-from-home. Candidates must reside within commuting distance of one of these locations. Fully remote work is not available for this role.

Responsibilities:

Collaborate closely with the Director, IT Infrastructure & Cloud to execute the IT vision for Planet Fitness.

Drive platform engineering projects from planning through execution and delivery.

Support weekly team meetings to review work progress, remove blockers, and align priorities.

Build and maintain cloud infrastructure in AWS, with contributions to Azure and other platforms.

Own and evolve the internal developer platform service catalog.

Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code.

Guide Kubernetes (EKS) operations including deployment strategies and scaling.

Improve CI/CD pipelines and developer enablement tooling.

Define and track KPIs for platform performance, reliability, and developer productivity.

Use existing platform roadmap and build a forward-looking roadmap aligned with business goals.

Collaborate with app/dev, data, and InfoSec teams to align platform capabilities with business needs.

Ensure compliance with security guidelines and vulnerability remediation SLAs.

Document systems, workflows, and architecture for transparency and knowledge sharing.

Contribute to Agile practices including sprint planning, retrospectives, and iterative delivery.

Monitor and troubleshoot systems using tools such as Datadog and PagerDuty.

Drive team projects including support and access requests, threat modeling sessions, and on-call rotation.

Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and operational excellence.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in computer information systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience

Minimum of 7 years experience in a Cloud, DevOps, or Platform Engineering role

Proven experience leading technical projects and mentoring engineers

Strong hands-on experience with AWS (preferred), Azure, and other cloud platforms

Proficiency in Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices

Deep experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferred) and CI/CD tooling

Familiarity with Git/GitHub, Jira, and Confluence

Hands-on experience with static analysis tools

Strong communication and presentation skills across all levels of the organization

Ability to define and measure KPIs and translate platform metrics into actionable insights

Experience with Agile methodologies and Scrum practices is highly valued

Entrepreneurial mindset with initiative, creativity, and strategic thinking

Comfortable working in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

Strong written documentation and communication skills, especially when working across teams

Extremely detail-oriented, efficient, and organized with an exceptional ability to establish priorities and objectives

Exceptional presentation and communication skills along with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization, including executives

Able to establish and maintain effective, collaborative work relationships with diverse individuals, internally and externally

Creative, progressive, thought leadership with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization

Possess a results-driven entrepreneurial mindset, demonstrating initiative and creativity

Exhibits comfort, ease, and flexibility working in an extremely fast-paced ever-changing, deadline-driven environment

Cooperative team player with an upbeat, positive, “can-do” attitude!

Perks:

Planet Fitness cares about you and your well-being. We offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees which includes the core medical, dental, vision, life and disability as well as supplemental accident, hospital and critical illness coverage options. In addition, we are proud to offer eligible employees a generous time off program (including volunteer time), childcare reimbursement, paid parental leave, pet care reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, free Black Card membership, learning and development programs and a whole host of engagement activities. We offer a 401(k) Plan with safe harbor employer matching and an employee stock purchase plan. This role is also eligible to participate in an annual corporate bonus incentive program based on company financial and personal performance.

The salary for NH-based and MA-based employees hired into this role will be aligned with the range below. This is a good faith estimate, and the amount of base salary will correspond with a candidate’s professional experience, qualifications and internal equity.

Annual Base Salary Range: $155,000-$170,000

Note to Applicants: We have been made aware of an increasing number of hiring fraud schemes across numerous platforms. Planet Fitness never requires advance payments of any kind for computer equipment or any other purpose at the start of employment. Any request for you to provide payment information during the application process is part of a fraud scheme. Further, we recommend that you do not provide sensitive personal information (SSN, DOB, driver’s license number) as part of the initial application process.