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Job description
About the Role
Join a platform engineering team at a public safety technology company, building and operating the cloud infrastructure and data systems behind large-scale information retrieval. You will own critical distributed systems end to end, helping ensure they are reliable, secure, and ready for demanding production workloads.
What You'll Do
Design, build, and operate data pipelines that ingest large volumes of data into object storage and index it in databases and vector stores for fast retrieval.
Make architectural decisions across storage tiers, distributed databases, and high-throughput messaging and streaming systems.
Run and scale containerized services on orchestration platforms, using declarative configuration and GitOps workflows across environments.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and DevOps tooling that supports safe, frequent releases.
Help maintain secure, auditable, reliable systems in regulated or federal environments.
Troubleshoot and tune application, storage, and networking systems, and support teammates through code review, pairing, and technical guidance.
What We're Looking For
Five to ten years of experience, including at least five years building and maintaining production software systems.
Hands-on experience with AWS production workloads and a strong understanding of distributed systems.
Experience designing large-scale data storage and retrieval systems, including hot and cold storage, and building production data pipelines.
DevOps experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and automated deployments.
Experience with backend or distributed systems in addition to front-end development.
Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, Python or Go, PostgreSQL, vector databases, S3 or similar object storage, Kafka, ArgoCD, Helm, and distributed SQL databases.
Experience owning production systems from architecture through deployment and on-call operations; regulated or federal environment experience is a plus.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary is $175,000 to $220,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Location
Hybrid role based in New York, United States.