Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Have 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or cloud engineering

Have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Have strong experience with AWS, including GovCloud, multi-account architectures, Control Tower, IAM, VPC, EKS, and CloudFormation

Are proficient with Terraform and have managed infrastructure at scale across multiple accounts, ideally using Terraform Enterprise or Terraform Cloud

Have experience deploying and operating Kubernetes clusters in production

Are proficient in Python and Bash, with experience writing automation and infrastructure tooling

Are comfortable building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling

Understand security fundamentals including FIPS encryption requirements and can build infrastructure that satisfies compliance frameworks like CMMC and NIST

Can work across the stack, from cloud networking and IAM policies to Helm charts and container registries

U.S. citizenship required

Experience with Go or other systems programming languages

Familiarity with ArgoCD and GitOps-based deployment patterns

Experience with SIEM platforms (e.g., Elastic) and centralized logging architectures

Experience supporting ML/AI workloads — GPU-backed instances, training pipelines, large dataset management

Background in defense, intelligence, or other regulated environments requiring ATO

Experience operating COTS products alongside custom-built internal services

Helsing’s work is important. You’ll be directly contributing to the protection of democratic countries while balancing both ethical and geopolitical concerns

The work is unique. We operate in a domain that has highly unusual technical requirements and constraints, and where robustness, safety, and ethical considerations are vital. You will face unique Engineering and AI challenges that make a meaningful impact in the world

Our work frequently takes us right up to the state of the art in technical innovation, be it reinforcement learning, distributed systems, generative AI, or deployment infrastructure. The defense industry is entering the most exciting phase of the technological development curve. Advances in our field of world are not incremental: Helsing is part of, and often leading, historic leaps forward

In our domain, success is a matter of order-of-magnitude improvements and novel capabilities. This means we take bets, aim high, and focus on big opportunities. Despite being a relatively young company, Helsing has already been selected for multiple significant government contracts

We actively encourage healthy, proactive, and diverse debate internally about what we do and how we choose to do it. Teams and individual engineers are trusted (and encouraged) to practice responsible autonomy and critical thinking, and to focus on outcomes, not conformity. At Helsing you will have a say in how we (and you!) work, the opportunity to engage on what does and doesn’t work, and to take ownership of aspects of our culture that you care deeply about

A focus on outcomes, not time-tracking

A generous compensation and benefits package (in addition to base salary) that includes, but may not be limited to, insurance coverage (medical and travel), flexible paid time off, paid holidays, and remote and/or hybrid work available depending on position. All compensation and benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of the underlying plans or programs, as applicable and as may be amended, terminated or superseded from time to time.

Helsing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetics, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.