Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineering
$180,000–$200,000 year
RemoteUnited States or Williamsburg, New York, United States
Job Summary
Design and evolve platform architecture by evaluating trade-offs and partnering with teams to build scalable, reliable infrastructure that supports long-term growth. Build tooling, services, and automation to improve developer productivity, reliability, and observability while expanding Terraform coverage to ensure resources are versioned, auditable, and safely provisioned. Contribute to the design of system interactions and data flows, balancing scalability, reliability, and performance. Improve operational signal through monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and testing pipelines, and secure CI/CD pipelines, access controls, and networking to support compliance. Reduce operational toil by identifying repetitive work and eliminating it through automation, better abstractions, or AI-driven tooling. Partner closely with engineering teams to unblock delivery and ensure platform decisions reflect real-world needs.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or software engineering roles
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Strong software engineering foundation with solid coding skills
- Hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native systems
- Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub, GitHub Actions)
- Strong understanding of containers, Docker, and cloud networking fundamentals
- Experience with databases and data infrastructure
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pub/Sub, Kinesis, or similar)
- Comfortable discussing architectural trade-offs and system design decisions clearly and thoughtfully
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship
Desired Qualifications
- Python preferred
- GCP preferred
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent practical experience will be considered
- Experience operating in startup or scaling environments
- Prior SRE experience or helping teams mature toward SRE practices
- Serverless or managed cloud architectures
- Experience in regulated or security-sensitive environments
- Building automation or AI-driven tooling to reduce operational toil
- Previous experience in FinTech, HealthTech or highly regulated industries
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