Senior Platform Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

About Us

At Leap, we're on a mission to transform the home improvement industry - and we want you to be part of that journey. We're proud to be recognized on the Inc. 5000 and Inc. Regionals lists for 5+ consecutive years, reflecting sustained growth driven by innovation, strong execution, and an incredible team. We build technology that helps contractors work smarter, scale faster, and deliver better experiences to their customers.

When you join Leap, you'll work alongside curious minds, bold innovators, and thoughtful risk-takers who care deeply about doing great work - and doing it together. Our culture is transparent, supportive, and grounded in approachable leadership. We actively listen to our employees through semi-annual engagement surveys, maintain a strong eNPS score, and consistently act on feedback to improve what's working and where we can do better. We believe great work happens when people are supported outside of work, which is why we offer comprehensive benefits and wellness resources for you and your family.

Take the Leap today and help shape what's next.

THE OPPORTUNITY

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll design, build, and operate the infrastructure and tooling our engineers depend on every day. This is a hands-on IC role with broad ownership, measured by the leverage you give other teams rather than tickets closed. No on-call rotation.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, build, and operate secure, scalable, multi-account AWS infrastructure using Terraform, with reusable modules that drive consistency and reduce configuration drift.
• Evolve our CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation to enable faster, safer, and more reliable releases.
• Build self-service platforms and automation that reduce developer friction and manual operational toil.
• Implement monitoring, observability, and alerting that improve operational visibility and incident readiness.
• Drive AWS cost optimization and operational efficiencies without slowing engineering velocity.
• Partner closely with engineering teams to understand their needs, remove friction from their workflows, and turn recurring pain points into self-service solutions.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Minimum of Associate's Degree, Bachelor's Degree preferred.
• 7+ years in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE, with deep hands-on AWS.
• Strong expertise with Terraform and multi-account, multi-environment IaC patterns at scale, including remote state management (S3/DynamoDB).
• Strong experience with modern CI/CD systems and automated deployment pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred).
• Experience with AWS compute: EC2 and containerized workloads on ECS/Fargate (Docker).
• Experience supporting production databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
• Experience with observability platforms: CloudWatch and New Relic or similar.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python or TypeScript: you build platform tooling and automation as production-grade software (tested, versioned, operable), not one-off scripts.
• You think in distributed systems: failure modes, idempotency, retries, and backpressure, and how infrastructure design decisions shape application reliability at scale.
• Experience supporting SOC 2 audits and compliance in regulated environments.

The bar is higher than using AI tools day to day. Specifically:

• You delegate whole pieces of work to autonomous agents, run several in parallel, and review and direct their output rather than hand-typing most of it. Infrastructure code is no exception.
• You have built the scaffolding that makes agents effective: skills, prompts, MCP integrations, evals, and the guardrails that let agents touch infrastructure safely.
• You know how to operationalize AI-generated changes in production environments: policy checks, plan-review gates, and blast-radius controls, so agent speed never outruns safety.
• Experience with AI-enabled operational workflows and LLM platforms such as Amazon Bedrock.
• Candidates should expect to show us how they actually work with agents during the interview process.

PREFERRED SKILLS

• Internal developer platform experience, including self-service infrastructure for engineering teams.
• EKS / Kubernetes experience: a direction we're beginning to explore.
• A track record of modernizing manual, older deployment and infrastructure patterns toward fully automated models.
• Experience thriving in a high-autonomy, remote-first engineering culture.
• Experience with secure SDLC and software supply-chain security (e.g., Dependabot, push protection, dependency and secret scanning).
• Familiarity with AWS security posture tooling (GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config) is a plus.

Compensation will be determined based on experience, skills, and qualifications.

Pay Range

$160,000—$175,000 USD

Benefits

We believe in supporting our employees holistically - your health, financial well-being, time to recharge, and overall happiness matter to us. Here's what you can look forward to:

• Affordable Health & Wellness Coverage – comprehensive and competitive benefits package, starting the first of the month following your hire date.
• Invest in Your Future – 401(k) company match to help you build financial security.
• Time to Recharge – We believe time to rest and recharge matters. Leap offers a Flexible Time Off (FTO) policy, 10 paid sick days, and 8 paid company holidays.
• Comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – resources to support your mental health, financial well-being, and everyday challenges.
• Exclusive Discounts with LifeMart (via ADP) – save on groceries, restaurants, entertainment, pet insurance, cell phones, child care, and more!
• MoveSpring Wellness App – stay active and engaged with company step challenges, workout content, meditation tools, and wellness blogs for a healthier you!
• Culture & Team-Building Activities – we love to connect, celebrate, and grow together through team events, fun challenges, and company traditions like our Annual Summit!

Join us and experience a company that truly invests in YOU !

Leap is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.

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