Senior Platform Engineer
Summary
Senior platform engineer who designs and operates large-scale cloud infrastructure and data systems (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, PostgreSQL, vector stores) for a public safety technology platform, including CI/CD, GitOps, data pipelines, and on-call support. Hybrid role in New York paying $175k–$220k.
About the Role
Join a platform engineering team building and operating the cloud infrastructure and data systems behind a public safety technology platform. You will own reliable, large-scale systems from design through production operations.
What You'll Do
Design and operate data infrastructure for large-scale ingestion into object storage, databases, and vector stores to support fast retrieval.
Make architectural decisions across hot and cold storage, distributed databases, and high-throughput messaging and streaming systems.
Deploy and scale containerized services across environments using orchestration, declarative configuration, and GitOps workflows.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and tools that help engineering teams ship safely.
Support secure, auditable, reliable operations in regulated or federal environments.
Debug and tune systems across application code, storage, and networking, and mentor engineers through reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.
What We're Looking For
Five or more years of professional software engineering experience, including building and maintaining production systems.
Hands-on experience with AWS production workloads and distributed systems.
Experience designing large-scale data storage and retrieval systems, including hot and cold storage, and building production data pipelines.
A strong DevOps foundation, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and automated deployments.
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, Python or Go, PostgreSQL, object storage, Kafka, and vector or distributed SQL databases.
Experience owning production systems end to end, operating containerized services, and providing on-call support.
Experience in FedRAMP, federal, or other regulated environments is valued.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $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, New York, United States.
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