Senior Platform Engineer

About the Role

Join a platform engineering team at a public safety technology company. You will build and operate cloud infrastructure and data systems that support large-scale search and retrieval.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and operate data and infrastructure platforms for large-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.
• Deploy and scale containerized services across environments using orchestration platforms, declarative configuration, and GitOps workflows.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and developer tooling for safe, frequent releases.
• Help maintain secure, auditable, reliable environments that meet federal or regulated compliance requirements.
• Troubleshoot 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 software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems, with roughly five to ten years of overall experience.
• Hands-on experience with AWS production workloads and a strong foundation in distributed systems, backend engineering, and production data pipelines.
• Experience designing large-scale data storage and retrieval systems, including hot and cold storage approaches.
• Experience owning production systems end to end, including architecture, implementation, deployment, and on-call operations.
• Proficiency with relevant tools and technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, GitOps, Python or Go, PostgreSQL, vector databases, S3-compatible object storage, Kafka, ArgoCD, Helm, distributed SQL databases, and observability tools.
• Federal or regulated environment experience, including FedRAMP, is beneficial.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without 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.