Staff Platform Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and oversee internal enterprise platforms that enhance delivery efficiency, deployment safety, and operational reliability.

• Lead initiatives for enterprise observability, automated CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and compliance automation.

• Minimize operational toil and standardize environment configurations across various vendors and integrated business applications.

• Architect, construct, and sustain scalable automated UI and API test suites utilizing Playwright and TypeScript.

• Create automated data generation tools and synthetic applicant profile generators using Python and REST APIs.

• Develop front-end tools in React and TypeScript for vendors and government stakeholders to create test scenarios and monitor pipeline status.

• Design, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines incorporating quality gates and feature-driven promotion practices.

• Create reusable engineering patterns, self-service platform capabilities, CLI utilities, and starter kits.

• Conduct code reviews and offer one-on-one mentorship.

• Act as a technical liaison to client leads and external vendor teams.

• Assist with cloud infrastructure updates utilizing Terraform.

• Integrate automated security scanning and ensure continuous compliance within a FedRAMP/Public Trust environment.

• Collaborate on systems that support tens of millions of American students and borrowers.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of professional experience in developing full-stack applications and tooling with TypeScript and Python.

• Practical experience in writing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

• Proficient with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.

• Experience designing intricate systems that interact with external services, databases, and third-party APIs.

• Background in working on cross-functional agile teams.

• Experience in estimating complex engineering tasks.

• Ability to communicate technical updates directly to client stakeholders.

• Strong diagnostic abilities for resolving complex, distributed multi-vendor application failures and microservices issues.

• Previous involvement in federal government digital service projects or civic tech programs.

• Familiarity with AWS GovCloud environments.

• Understanding of FedRAMP compliance standards.

• Knowledge of observability tools.

• Experience in implementing synthetic test data generators or complex mock data services for enterprise integrations.

• Legal authorization to work in the United States.

• Capability to fulfill additional requirements for government contracts.

• Work authorization that does not necessitate visa sponsorship now or in the future.

• May be subject to a government background check or security clearance.

• Must reside in the continental United States.

🏝️ Benefits

• Healthy work-life balance.

• Encouragement to log off at the end of the day.

• Paid time off as needed.

• Access to modern cloud development environments and tools.

• Occasional travel, approximately 1–2 times per year.