Senior Platform Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE Join a platform engineering team at a technology company building large-scale data and retrieval systems. You will design and operate the cloud infrastructure, storage, and data pipelines that support reliable, high-throughput services. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Design and operate data and infrastructure platforms for petabyte-scale ingestion into object storage, databases, and vector stores. - Make architectural tradeoffs across hot and cold storage, distributed databases, and high-throughput messaging and streaming systems. - Deploy and scale containerized services across environments using declarative configuration and GitOps workflows. - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and developer tooling for safe, frequent releases. - Help operate compliant federal or regulated environments, with a focus on security, auditability, and reliability. - Troubleshoot and tune systems across application code, storage, and networking, and mentor engineers through reviews and technical guidance. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - Five or more years of software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems, with roughly five to ten years of overall experience. - Hands-on experience with AWS production workloads, distributed systems, and large-scale data storage and retrieval, including hot and cold storage. - A strong DevOps foundation, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and automated deployments. - Experience owning production systems end to end, building data pipelines, and operating containerized services on orchestration platforms. - Backend or distributed systems experience in addition to any front-end development experience. - Relevant technologies include Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, Python, Go, PostgreSQL, Kafka, S3, vector databases, ArgoCD, and Helm. - Experience in FedRAMP, federal, or other regulated environments is beneficial. - Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary: $175,000 to $220,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available. LOCATION Hybrid role based in New York, United States.