Senior Platform Engineer

About the Role

Join a public safety technology team building and operating the data and infrastructure platform behind large-scale information retrieval. You will own reliable distributed systems across their full lifecycle, from architecture and implementation to deployment and on-call operations.

What You'll Do

• Design and operate data pipelines that ingest large volumes of data into object storage and index it in databases and vector stores for fast retrieval.
• Shape storage and retrieval architecture, balancing hot and cold storage tiers, distributed databases, and high-throughput messaging and streaming systems.
• Run 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 that support safe, frequent releases.
• Help maintain secure, auditable, and reliable systems in regulated or federal environments.
• Troubleshoot and tune application, storage, and networking systems, and mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.

What We're Looking For

• Five or more years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems, with roughly 5 to 10 years of overall experience.
• Hands-on experience with AWS production workloads and a strong understanding of distributed systems.
• Experience designing large-scale data storage and retrieval systems, including hot and cold storage, and building production data pipelines.
• DevOps experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and automated deployments.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, Python or Go, PostgreSQL, object storage, Kafka, vector databases, or distributed SQL databases.
• Backend or distributed systems experience in addition to front-end development experience.
• Experience owning production systems end to end and troubleshooting across application code, storage, and networking.
• Experience in FedRAMP, federal, or other regulated environments is valued.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without employer 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.