Senior Platform Engineer

Description

About the Role

Join a public safety technology team building and operating the cloud infrastructure and data platform behind large-scale search systems. You will own reliable distributed systems end to end, from architecture and implementation through deployment and on-call operations.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate data infrastructure for petabyte-scale ingestion into object storage and indexing in databases and vector stores.
• Shape storage and retrieval architecture, balancing hot and cold storage, distributed databases, and high-throughput messaging and streaming systems.
• Run and scale containerized services across orchestration platforms using declarative configuration and GitOps workflows.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and tools that support safe, frequent software delivery.
• Help maintain secure, auditable, reliable environments that meet federal or other regulated requirements.
• Debug and tune systems across application code, storage, and networking, and mentor engineers through reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.

Requirements

• 5 or more years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record building and maintaining production systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS production workloads, distributed systems, and large-scale data storage and retrieval.
• Experience building production data pipelines and owning services through deployment and on-call operations.
• A DevOps foundation that includes CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and automated deployments.
• Experience running containerized workloads with tools such as Docker and Kubernetes, and familiarity with Terraform and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD and Helm.
• Relevant technologies may include Python, Go, PostgreSQL, vector databases, object storage, Kafka, and distributed SQL databases.
• Experience in federal or regulated environments, such as FedRAMP, is valuable.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Conditions

Base salary range: $175,000 to $220,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Hybrid role based in New York, New York, United States.