Senior Platform Engineer

About the Role

Join a platform engineering team at a technology company building large-scale data and retrieval systems. You will design and operate the cloud infrastructure, storage, and data pipelines that support reliable, high-throughput services.

What You'll Do

• Design and operate data and infrastructure platforms for petabyte-scale ingestion into object storage, databases, and vector stores.

• Make architectural tradeoffs across hot and cold storage, distributed databases, and high-throughput messaging and streaming systems.

• Deploy and scale containerized services across environments using declarative configuration and GitOps workflows.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and developer tooling for safe, frequent releases.

• Help operate compliant federal or regulated environments, with a focus on security, auditability, and reliability.

• Troubleshoot and tune systems across application code, storage, and networking, and mentor engineers through reviews and technical guidance.

What We're Looking For

• Five or more years of software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems, with roughly five to ten years of overall experience.

• Hands-on experience with AWS production workloads, distributed systems, and large-scale data storage and retrieval, including hot and cold storage.

• A strong DevOps foundation, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and automated deployments.

• Experience owning production systems end to end, building data pipelines, and operating containerized services on orchestration platforms.

• Backend or distributed systems experience in addition to any front-end development experience.

• Relevant technologies include Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, Python, Go, PostgreSQL, Kafka, S3, vector databases, ArgoCD, and Helm.

• Experience in FedRAMP, federal, or other regulated environments is beneficial.

• Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $175,000 to $220,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

Hybrid role based in New York, United States.