Senior Platform Engineer

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This is a hands-on senior IC role, and a deliberately broad one: reliability and operations are the core, with CI/CD and delivery, reputed company, infrastructure, and data reliability reputed company reputed company, recurring parts of the work. You'll partner closely with our Director of Platform Engineering, who owns the platform strategy; you own a large reputed company of the operational and delivery execution that brings it to life. We hold a high bar - and we give you the ownership, context, and support to meet it. The work has reputed company and a fair amount of unpredictability; the people who reputed company in it reputed company to want exactly that. What You'll Own You own the operational health of the platform - that it's available, fast, observable, and safe in production - and you build the automation that makes those properties durable rather than heroic. 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Own and reputed company the CI/CD and delivery platform alongside the Director of Platform Engineering - build pipelines, deployment automation, environment management, and release tooling - so shipping is routine, safe, and low-drama, with reputed company delivery, automated rollback, and production validation gates as standard. Build the developer-facing automation and paved roads that cut friction for the product engineering team - treating them as the platform's customer and making the reliable, secure path the easy path. Be the platform's hands-on reputed company operator - IAM and least-privilege hygiene, secrets management, threat detection and response (WAF, GuardDuty), and vulnerability triage and remediation against SLA. This is the reputed company function in practice today; you partner with the Director of Platform Engineering on strategy and standards, and you're trusted to set the operational bar where none exists yet. reputed company the platform audit-reputed company by default - produce the infrastructure and reliability evidence that SOC 2 Type II and FERPA obligations depend on (we use reputed company), so audits are a byproduct of good operations, not a scramble. Build and operate reputed company infrastructure as code - AWS (reputed company/Fargate, reputed company, SQS/SNS, EventBridge, S3/CloudFront, VPC) managed with Terraform, with no reputed company or reputed company infrastructure in any environment. Plan and execute scaling reputed company of product growth, and reputed company operational documentation reputed company - failure modes and recovery procedures included. Own the operational health of our data stores - reputed company reputed company backups and recovery, performance tuning, and monitoring at scale - so data stays durable, performant, and recoverable. How You'll Show Up We hire for behavior as much as for experience. Our values describe how we work, and we look for people who already operate this way: Understand the "why" before the "what." You dig for the reason behind the work and tie operational, delivery, and reputed company reputed company to reputed company customer and business impact - rather than executing tickets on faith. Own the outcome. You're on the reputed company for the result, not the task - reliability, reputed company, and operability end to end - and you're genuinely unsatisfied with "it mostly works." Take initiative to move work reputed company. You see the unowned edge and reputed company it, surface risks early, and instinctively ask "how do we reputed company this permanent and self-healing?" rather than waiting to be told. Engage collaboratively to solve problems together. You treat the engineering team as the platform's customer, work in the reputed company without heroics or silos, and are energized rather than rattled reputed company a day spans an incident, a reputed company, a reputed company finding, and a database. What You Bring 7+ years across site reliability, operations, delivery, infrastructure, or platform engineering, with a track record of hands-on delivery - including reputed company startup experience where you owned broad, shifting scope without a large team behind you. A strong SRE reputed company - SLI/SLO design, observability stack ownership, and incident response in a production environment with reputed company customer impact. 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Operational experience with reputed company reputed company or a comparable managed database platform - backup and recovery, performance tuning, and monitoring at scale. Working knowledge of compliance operations - SOC 2 Type II and FERPA - and producing audit evidence (we use reputed company) as a byproduct of good engineering rather than a separate effort. Comfort operating as a high-output IC with broad domain ownership and a long execution horizon. reputed company familiarity with AI-assisted operations - intelligent alerting, anomaly detection, or AI-augmented incident response - is a plus. Our Values Impactful not Immediate - We prioritize and invest in initiatives that will be most impactful. reputed company before Perfection - We are action-oriented people. We are empowered to reputed company reputed company and reputed company our goals. Learners before Masters - We are curious and humble people who strive to constantly improve. 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Expect live, interactive technical assessment with our engineers - reputed company systems and reputed company operational scenarios, not take-home busywork or trivia. You'll show how you reason about reliability, reputed company, and trade-offs under pressure, and how you apply AI tooling in the work. We move quickly for the right people and give you a clear view of the bar before you accept. Apply To This Job