Senior Platform Engineer

About the Role

Join a platform engineering team building and operating cloud infrastructure and data systems for a public safety technology product. You will own reliable, large-scale services and pipelines from architecture through deployment and on-call operations.

What You'll Do

• Design and operate data infrastructure that ingests large volumes of data into object storage and indexes it in databases and vector stores for fast retrieval.
• Make architecture decisions across storage tiers, 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.
• Support secure, auditable, reliable systems in regulated or federal environments.
• Troubleshoot and tune services across application code, storage, and networking, and mentor engineers through reviews and technical guidance.

What We're Looking For

• Five or more years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems, with 5 to 10 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.
• Experience building production data pipelines and owning systems from design through deployment and on-call operations.
• A DevOps foundation, including 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-compatible object storage, Kafka, or distributed SQL databases.
• Backend or distributed systems experience in addition to front-end development is expected. 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 range: $175,000 to $220,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

Hybrid role based in New York, United States.