Platform Engineer

Who you are

Role Responsibilities

• Platform & Cloud Infrastructure
• Help build, operate, and evolve our AWS infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and managed services
• Design and maintain infrastructure that supports high availability, predictable performance, and financial correctness
• Contribute to platform-level architectural decisions, including service migrations and runtime changes (e.g., Redis → Valkey, EKS → ECS/Fargate)
• Help ensure infrastructure choices align with reliability, cost, and operational simplicity—not just trend adoption
• Deployment, Reliability & Operations
• Build and maintain deployment pipelines that are safe, repeatable, and observable
• Contribute to system reliability through capacity planning, failure modeling, and controlled change management
• Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis for infrastructure-level failures
• Participate in on-call rotations and help continuously improve operational ergonomics
• Observability, Security & Governance
• Build and maintain strong observability across infrastructure and services (metrics, logs, tracing, alerting)
• Help ensure secure configuration of AWS resources, IAM policies, secrets management, and network boundaries
• Identify infrastructure risks related to scale, cost, or security and partner with the team to address them before they become incidents
• Technical Collaboration
• Partner closely with application engineers to ensure platform constraints and capabilities are well understood
• Implement infrastructure changes hands-on, working independently and alongside other engineers
• Contribute to standards and best practices for infrastructure, deployment, and operations as the team grows
• Share knowledge with other engineers and contribute to improving the overall operational maturity of the organization

Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure in cloud environments
• Hands-on experience with AWS core services (EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, ElastiCache, ALB/NLB, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Understanding of containerized workloads and orchestration concepts
• Experience supporting systems designed for high availability, fault tolerance, and controlled failure
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent)
• Experience contributing to infrastructure migrations and production changes
• Experience debugging production incidents involving networking, scaling, or service degradation

Preferred Qualification

• Experience operating infrastructure for financial systems or other high-reliability domains
• Experience working with infrastructure through periods of growth or increasing complexity
• Familiarity with observability and strong operational practices
• Experience simplifying, retiring, or rearchitecting existing infrastructure
• Comfort working closely with a Rails-based application stack while remaining tool-agnostic

Some Of Our Benefits

• Generous PTO and company holiday policy + company paid Short Term Disability
• 100% employer covered health and dental insurance for our direct employees (a set plan is covered, with higher tier healthcare coverage available at employee’s additional cost; dependent coverage is at employee’s cost); vision plan available at employee’s additional cost
• Child Care Benefits and generous parental leave

Salary

• $150,000 - $170,000, DOE + Benefits

Who we are

Who we are