Platform Engineer

DPP is seeking a Platform Engineer for an opportunity with our client in the cybersecurity industry.

Work Location: Fully remote
Work Authorization: US Citizen; must be able to obtain/maintain U.S. security clearance

Position Summary:

• As a Platform Engineer youll be the technical backbone of the company.
• Youll own the product architecture write production code daily and make the foundational technical decisions that everything else gets built on.
• This is a hands-on high-autonomy role for someone who wants to build a company from the ground floor with the maturity and ambition to grow into a CTO as we scale.
• This role is uniquely suited for someone at the intersection of:
  • Deep firsthand experience with the DoDs Authority to Operate (ATO) process.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals are necessary. Architect systems ship production code and building things that scale.
  • A conviction that AI development tools are a force multiplier. You will use them daily.

Responsibilities:

• Own the full technical stack from day one architecture infrastructure deployment and product development.
• Build tools that make the ATO process faster more transparent and less painful for defense software teams.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools (Codex Claude Code Cursor etc.) as a core part of your workflow.
• Collaborate directly with DoD stakeholders compliance teams and end users.
• Evaluate build-or-buy trade-offs select the technology stack and establish engineering practices.
• Contribute to security documentation architecture diagrams and compliance artifacts for government authorization.

Required Qualifications:

• U.S. Citizenship; capable of obtaining and holding a U.S. security clearance (active clearance is a plus).
• Direct experience with the DoD ATO process youve shepherded a system through authorization worked with ISSMs/ISSOs or built tools in this space.
• 5 years of professional software development with demonstrated ability to ship production systems.
• Proficiency with modern development stacks (cloud-native containers CI/CD IaC) and at least one major language (Python Go TypeScript Rust etc.).
• Active and enthusiastic user of AI-powered development tools.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with NIST RMF STIG compliance or FedRAMP authorization frameworks.
• Prior work at a defense tech startup or DoD software factory (Kessel Run Platform One AI2C Army SWF etc.).
• Familiarity with GovCloud environments (AWS GovCloud Azure Government IL4/IL5).
• Background in DevSecOps automated security scanning SBOM generation continuous monitoring.
• Experience building or contributing to open-source compliance or security tooling.

Interested Learn more:
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DP Professionals (DPP) offers a range of compensation and benefits packages to our employees and their eligible dependents. DPP is a certified Woman-owned Small Business Enterprise (WBE and WOSB) with more than 25 years in the staffing industry. EOE/AA/V/D

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