Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop, manage, and enhance AWS infrastructure encompassing compute, networking, storage, and managed services.

• Design and uphold infrastructure that ensures high availability, reliable performance, and financial accuracy.

• Participate in platform architectural decisions, including service migrations and runtime adjustments such as transitioning from Redis to Valkey and from EKS to ECS/Fargate.

• Create and sustain secure, repeatable, and observable deployment pipelines.

• Engage in capacity planning, failure modeling, controlled change management, incident response, and root-cause analysis.

• Be part of on-call rotations and enhance operational ergonomics.

• Develop and maintain observability across infrastructure and services, including metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting.

• Assist in securing AWS resources, IAM policies, secrets management, and network boundaries.

• Recognize and mitigate infrastructure risks related to scaling, costs, and security.

• Collaborate with application engineers on platform limitations and capabilities.

• Implement infrastructure modifications both independently and collaboratively.

• Contribute to standards and best practices for infrastructure, deployment, and operations.

• Share knowledge and enhance the operational maturity of the organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 4 years of experience in building and managing production infrastructure within cloud environments.

• Practical experience with AWS core services, including EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, ElastiCache, ALB/NLB, and CloudWatch.

• Knowledge of containerized workloads and orchestration principles.

• Experience in supporting systems designed for high availability, fault tolerance, and controlled failure.

• Hands-on expertise with infrastructure as code tools, such as Terraform or CloudFormation.

• Experience in contributing to infrastructure migrations and production modifications.

• Proficient in troubleshooting production incidents related to networking, scaling, or service degradation.

• Experience managing infrastructure for financial systems or other high-reliability sectors is preferred.

• Background in managing infrastructure during growth phases or increasing complexity is preferred.

• Familiarity with observability and strong operational practices is preferred.

• Experience in simplifying, retiring, or rearchitecting existing infrastructure is preferred.

• Comfort in collaborating closely with a Rails-based application stack while maintaining tool-agnosticity is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Generous PTO and company holiday policy.

• Company-paid Short Term Disability.

• 100% employer-covered health and dental insurance for direct employees.

• Higher-tier healthcare coverage available at the employee’s additional cost.

• Child dependent coverage available at the employee’s cost.

• Vision plan available at the employee’s additional cost.

• Child Care Benefits.

• Generous parental leave.