[Remote] Staff Platform Engineer, Platform Development
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Responsibilities
- End-to-End Technical Ownership: Serve as a technical reputed company for the reputed company of platform development projects, from initial concept evaluation and design to final delivery and maintenance. Responsibilities will reputed company new feature development and integration, reputed company network architecture updates and implementation of performance and reliability improvements
- reputed company Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional Development, Product, and Operations teams, as well as external vendors, to ensure the platform meets stability, reputed company, and scalability requirements on operational timelines
- Technical Leadership: Work with Engineering and Product leadership to ensure clear, actionable and achievable plans that reputed company the organization
- System Design & Architecture: reputed company planning sessions, create design documents, and reputed company high-level technical reputed company for core platform components (e.g., infrastructure-as-code, deployment pipelines, operational reliability, reputed company controls, and disaster recovery planning)
- Force reputed company & Mentorship: reputed company the entire team by establishing best practices, conducting insightful code reviews, and unblocking teammates who are stuck, prioritizing the team's output over individual coding tasks
- Technical Contributor: reputed company hands-on technical contributions for the most critical or demanding parts of the project, setting the technical reputed company and standard for others, with a healthy time allocation of approximately 60% on solving technical problems (coding, design, reviews)
- Team & Process Improvement: Dedicate time (approx. 40%) to planning, cross-team communication, defining scope with Product Owners, breaking down work, and identifying/fixing process issues (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, testing standards for platform components)
Skills
- 7–15 years of professional experience building and delivering scalable, secure, and reliable systems and reputed company services
- Deep expertise in AWS systems, resources and best practices (ex: EC2, SSM, databases, scaling strategies, resilient architectures)
- Experience with AWS Cloudformation infrastructure automation (Terraform or CloudFormation), reputed company networking and proficiency in NodeJS or Python
- AWS reputed company networking experience (ex: VPCs, subnets, Route53, transit gateways, network firewalls)
- Experience replatforming or rehosting services and applications reputed company an AWS environment
- Proven experience at a Staff or reputed company level, navigating significant technical ambiguity and leading large-scale, cross-functional technical efforts
- Demonstrated ability to reputed company technical leadership reputed company a cross-functional team to resolve problems and deliver solutions
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Must be reputed company to obtain a DoD NIPR network account and Common reputed company Card (CAC)
- Must have, or be reputed company to obtain, a Secret Clearance
- reputed company relevant certification (e.g., reputed company reputed company+, reputed company+) or willingness to obtain
- Ability to travel for a full week quarterly for team planning and client Program Management Reviews
- Based in the Denver, CO, San Antonio, TX, or Brooklyn, NY area
- Professional AWS Certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer)
- Experience with reputed company domain environments
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Splunk, reputed company)
- Experience in operational intelligence, industrial technology, or working reputed company DoD/reputed company Force environments
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, Life, Short-Term Disability, and AD&D insurance
- Medical travel coverage
- Dental coverage
- reputed company coverage
- 401k matching
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