Platform Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

About Airspace Link

Airspace Link is a fast-growing Series B startup shaping the future of drone operations. We provide innovative software solutions that enable safe, scalable, and integrated drone flights in communities nationwide. As an FAA-approved provider of LAANC airspace checks and B4UFLY safety checks, we serve as the air traffic control system for drones, supporting cities, states, and federal agencies while enabling private industry to thrive in the emerging drone economy.

Job Summary

In a highly collaborative distributed agile team environment, you will design, build, and operate the internal platforms, tooling, and shared services that enable Airspace Link’s product engineering teams to deliver software safely, reliably, and at scale.

You will focus on developer experience, system reliability, automation, and scalable infrastructure that supports multiple product teams and mission-critical applications.

Duties and Responsibilities

· Operate and maintain our Azure (AKS) Kubernetes environments and supporting cloud infrastructure

· Manage infrastructure using Terraform and improve infrastructure consistency across environments

· Support day-to-day platform operations, deployments, and troubleshooting

· Partner with developers to assist with releases, debugging environment issues, and improving deployment workflows

· Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions

· Improve monitoring, alerting, observability (Better Stack, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana)

· Assist with incident response and participate in an on-call rotation as the team grows

· Work with SRE to improve system reliability, backups, and disaster recovery practices

· Reduce manual operational work through automation and scripting

· Help maintain system performance and platform stability as usage scales

· Document infrastructure and operational procedures to reduce knowledge silos

· Facilitate knowledge transfer and contribute to the growth and development of other engineers

· In collaboration with a Security Engineer, ensure systems meet information security, compliance, and operational standards within their area of ownership

· Adhere to internal processes for completing work items and deploying code to production

· Other responsibilities as assigned

Position Type: Full-Time, 40 hours per week

Location: Hybrid or Remote

· B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent relevant experience or education

· 4+ years of professional software engineering experience working on production SaaS platforms or distributed systems – DevOps, Cloud Engineering

· Experience operating production systems in a cloud environment (Azure preferred)

· Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (AKS or similar)

· Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform preferred)

· CI/CD pipeline experience (GitHub Actions or similar)

· Strong Linux troubleshooting skills

· Experience supporting production applications and diagnosing incidents

· Familiarity with monitoring and alerting systems

· Ability to work collaboratively with software engineers and assist with deployments

· Ability to implement best practices and mentor engineers across multiple teams

· Great teamwork and cross-functional collaboration skills

· An eagerness to learn and adapt to the needs of a greenfield industry

Preferred Experience

· Experience with Azure networking and IAM concepts

· Experience with containerized applications (Docker)

· Experience with PostgreSQL operations or performance considerations

· Observability tooling (metrics, logs, tracing, monitoring)

· Scripting or programming (Bash, Python, or Go)

· Experience improving reliability, automation, or operational processes

· UAS Part 107 or another pilot’s license a plus