Platform Engineer

About Airspace Link

Airspace Link is a fast-growing Series B startup shaping the future of drone operations. We provide innovative software solutions that enable safe, scalable, and integrated drone flights in communities nationwide. As an FAA-approved provider of LAANC airspace checks and B4UFLY safety checks, we serve as the air traffic control system for drones, supporting cities, states, and federal agencies while enabling private industry to thrive in the emerging drone economy.

Job Summary

In a highly collaborative distributed agile team environment, you will design, build, and operate the internal platforms, tooling, and shared services that enable Airspace Link’s product engineering teams to deliver software safely, reliably, and at scale.

You will focus on developer experience, system reliability, automation, and scalable infrastructure that supports multiple product teams and mission-critical applications.

Duties and Responsibilities

· Operate and maintain our Azure (AKS) Kubernetes environments and supporting cloud infrastructure

· Manage infrastructure using Terraform and improve infrastructure consistency across environments

· Support day-to-day platform operations, deployments, and troubleshooting

· Partner with developers to assist with releases, debugging environment issues, and improving deployment workflows

· Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions

· Improve monitoring, alerting, observability (Better Stack, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana)

· Assist with incident response and participate in an on-call rotation as the team grows

· Work with SRE to improve system reliability, backups, and disaster recovery practices

· Reduce manual operational work through automation and scripting

· Help maintain system performance and platform stability as usage scales

· Document infrastructure and operational procedures to reduce knowledge silos

· Facilitate knowledge transfer and contribute to the growth and development of other engineers

· In collaboration with a Security Engineer, ensure systems meet information security, compliance, and operational standards within their area of ownership

· Adhere to internal processes for completing work items and deploying code to production

· Other responsibilities as assigned

Position Type: Full-Time, 40 hours per week

Location: Hybrid or Remote