Senior Platform Engineer

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Lead architectural decisions at the platform level, including service migrations and runtime modifications (e.g., Redis → Valkey, EKS → ECS/Fargate).

• Ensure that infrastructure selections are in line with reliability, cost-effectiveness, and operational simplicity—not merely following trends.

• Create and maintain deployment pipelines that are secure, repeatable, and transparent.

• Take responsibility for system reliability through capacity planning, failure modeling, and controlled change management.

• Lead the response to incidents and conduct root-cause analysis for infrastructure-level failures.

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

• Establish and uphold strong observability across infrastructure and services (metrics, logs, tracing, alerting).

• Ensure the secure configuration of AWS resources, IAM policies, secrets management, and network boundaries.

• Proactively identify infrastructure risks related to scalability, cost, or security and address them before they escalate into incidents.

• Collaborate closely with application engineers to ensure that platform constraints and capabilities are thoroughly understood.

• Drive infrastructure modifications through direct implementation.

• Set standards and best practices for infrastructure, deployment, and operations as the team expands.

• Mentor fellow platform engineers and contribute to enhancing the overall operational maturity of the organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• More than 8 years of experience in building and managing production infrastructure within cloud environments.

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

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

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

• Practical experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools).

• Demonstrated capability to safely plan and execute infrastructure migrations.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Generous PTO and company holiday policy, along with company-paid Short Term Disability.

• 100% employer-covered health and dental insurance for our direct employees (a standard plan is covered, with higher-tier healthcare options available at the employee's additional cost; dependent coverage is at the employee's expense); vision plan available at the employee's additional cost.

• Child Care Benefits and generous parental leave.