Senior Platform Engineer

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join a public safety technology team building and operating the cloud data platform behind large-scale search and retrieval systems. You will own core infrastructure and distributed services, helping make them reliable, secure, and scalable.

WHAT YOU'LL DO - Design and operate data infrastructure for large-scale ingestion into object storage and indexing in databases and vector stores. - Make architecture decisions across storage tiers, distributed databases, and high-throughput messaging and streaming systems. - Deploy and scale containerized services across environments using orchestration platforms, declarative configuration, and GitOps workflows. - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and tools that support safe, frequent releases. - Help operate secure, auditable systems in federal or other regulated 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 building and maintaining production systems, ideally within a 5 to 10 year career range. - Hands-on experience with AWS production workloads and designing large-scale data storage and retrieval across hot and cold tiers. - A strong foundation in distributed systems, backend engineering, production data pipelines, and end-to-end ownership, including deployment and on-call operations. - Experience with DevOps practices such as CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and automated deployments. - Experience running containerized services with Docker and Kubernetes, and familiarity with Terraform, GitOps, ArgoCD, and Helm. - Familiarity with Python or Go, PostgreSQL, vector databases, S3 or similar object storage, Kafka, and distributed SQL databases. - Federal, FedRAMP, or other regulated-environment experience is helpful. - Must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

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

LOCATION

Hybrid role based in New York, United States.