true-talent-solutions-partners
Senior Platform Engineer
Industry Technology & Software
Job description
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join a public safety technology team building and operating the data and infrastructure platform behind large-scale image search. You will own reliable distributed systems and data services from architecture through deployment and production operations.
WHAT YOU'LL DO - Design and operate data infrastructure for large-scale ingestion into object storage and indexing across databases and vector stores. - Make architectural tradeoffs 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 DevOps tooling that supports safe, frequent releases. - Help maintain secure, auditable, reliable systems in federal or other regulated environments. - Troubleshoot and tune application, storage, and networking systems, and mentor engineers through reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - Five or more years of software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems, with experience owning systems through deployment and on-call operations. - Hands-on AWS experience and a strong understanding of distributed systems, backend engineering, and production data pipelines. - Experience designing large-scale data storage and retrieval across hot and cold tiers. - DevOps experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and automated deployments. - Experience running containerized services with Docker and Kubernetes, and familiarity with Terraform, GitOps, Python or Go, PostgreSQL, vector databases, object storage, Kafka, ArgoCD, and Helm. - Federal or regulated-environment experience, including FedRAMP, is beneficial.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Base salary: $175,000 to $220,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
LOCATION
Hybrid in New York, New York, United States.