Senior Platform Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership and enhance AWS infrastructure encompassing compute, networking, storage, and managed services.

• Create and uphold infrastructure that supports high availability, reliable performance, and financial accuracy.

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

• Ensure that infrastructure selections align with reliability, cost efficiency, and operational simplicity.

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

• Manage reliability through capacity planning, failure modeling, and controlled change management.

• Spearhead incident response efforts and conduct root-cause analysis for infrastructure failures.

• Engage in on-call rotations and enhance operational ergonomics.

• Develop and uphold observability through metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting mechanisms.

• Safeguard AWS resources, IAM policies, secrets management, and network boundaries.

• Recognize and mitigate infrastructure risks associated with scale, cost, and security.

• Collaborate with application engineers to address platform constraints and capabilities.

• Propel infrastructure modifications through direct implementation.

• Establish standards for infrastructure, deployment, and operations as the team expands.

• Mentor platform engineers to enhance the organization's operational maturity.

• Report directly to the Director of Engineering.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in building and operating production infrastructure within cloud environments.

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

• Strong comprehension of containerized workloads and the trade-offs involved in orchestration.

• Proven track record in designing systems that ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and managed failure.

• Practical experience with infrastructure as code tools, such as Terraform or CloudFormation.

• Demonstrated capability to plan and execute infrastructure migrations safely.

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

• Preferred: Experience managing infrastructure for financial systems or other high-reliability domains.

• Preferred: Direct experience in scaling infrastructure during periods of rapid growth.

• Preferred: Strong views on observability and operational hygiene shaped by past failures.

• Preferred: Experience in simplifying, decommissioning, or rearchitecting overly complex infrastructure.

• Preferred: Comfort in collaborating closely with a Rails-based application stack while remaining tool-agnostic.

🏝️ Benefits

• Generous PTO and company holiday policy.

• Company-paid Short Term Disability benefits.

• 100% employer-covered health and dental insurance for directly employed individuals on the specified plan.

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

• Dependent healthcare coverage available at the employee’s cost.

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

• Child Care Benefits.

• Generous parental leave policy.