Senior Platform Engineer

About the Role

Join a team building the cloud infrastructure and data platform behind a large-scale computer vision product. You will own reliable, secure systems for ingesting, storing, and retrieving large volumes of data.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and operate data pipelines and infrastructure for high-volume ingestion, storage, indexing, and retrieval.
• Make architecture decisions across storage tiers, distributed databases, vector stores, and messaging or streaming systems.
• Deploy and scale containerized services across environments using orchestration platforms and GitOps workflows.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and developer tooling for safe, frequent releases.
• Support secure, auditable, reliable operations in regulated or federal environments.
• Troubleshoot and tune systems across application code, storage, and networking, and mentor engineers through reviews and pairing.

What We're Looking For

• 5 to 10 years of experience, including at least 5 years building and maintaining production software systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS production workloads, distributed systems, and large-scale data storage and retrieval, including hot and cold storage.
• A solid DevOps foundation, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and automated deployments.
• Experience with backend or distributed systems in addition to any front-end work, and ownership of systems from design through deployment and on-call operations.
• Experience building production data pipelines and operating containerized services with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Relevant tools and technologies include Terraform, GitOps, ArgoCD, Helm, Python, Go, PostgreSQL, vector databases, object storage, Kafka, and distributed SQL databases.
• Experience in FedRAMP or another federal or regulated environment is valued.
• 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.