Senior Platform Engineer - Infrastructure (USA)

Role overview Own infrastructure and developer tooling that support a production software platform. You’ll improve deployment workflows, operational automation, reliability, security, and cost efficiency while working with engineers across software, data, and machine learning. The role offers broad responsibility in a small team and requires taking work from investigation through delivery.

Responsibilities - Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines and standardize deployment patterns and engineering environments. - Automate operational workflows and strengthen security and compliance practices. - Improve infrastructure performance, reliability, scalability, and cloud cost visibility. - Maintain observability and incident response processes, helping teams diagnose and prevent operational issues. - Collaborate with engineering partners on infrastructure and tooling for core platform services.

Requirements - At least five years of software engineering or DevOps experience, ideally including infrastructure, CI/CD, security, or performance work. - Strong system design, debugging, and problem-solving fundamentals. - Python proficiency or substantial experience in another object-oriented language. - Experience with cloud environments, serverless technologies such as Lambda or EC2, and asynchronous workflows. - Familiarity with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, as well as Terraform, infrastructure-as-code practices, and Docker or similar tools. - Ability to own projects, communicate proactively, and iterate through experiments with minimal oversight.

Nice to have - Experience with generative AI or large language models, or with distributed systems.

Benefits and work setup The listed salary estimate is $180,000–$250,000 USD, with final compensation depending on experience, interview performance, and location. The source also lists equity options, 20 days of paid time off, global team gatherings, and reimbursements for gym, phone, and student expenses.