Senior Platform Engineer

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.