Senior Platform Engineer

About the Role

Join a platform engineering team building and operating the cloud infrastructure and data systems behind a public safety technology platform. You will own reliable, large-scale systems from design through production operations.

What You'll Do

• Design and operate data infrastructure for large-scale ingestion into object storage, databases, and vector stores to support fast retrieval.

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

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

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and tools that help engineering teams ship safely.

• Support secure, auditable, reliable operations in regulated or federal environments.

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

What We're Looking For

• Five or more years of professional software engineering experience, including building and maintaining production systems.

• Hands-on experience with AWS production workloads and distributed systems.

• Experience designing large-scale data storage and retrieval systems, including hot and cold storage, and building production data pipelines.

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

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, Python or Go, PostgreSQL, object storage, Kafka, and vector or distributed SQL databases.

• Experience owning production systems end to end, operating containerized services, and providing on-call support.

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

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $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, New York, United States.