Staff Platform Engineer (AWS / Kubernetes / Terraform)

Staff Platform Engineer (AWS / Kubernetes / Terraform)

New York City – 4 Days Onsite | $200,000 – $250,000 Base + Equity

Want to architect and operate the platform behind mission-critical AI and financial data products, rather than own one narrow part of an established infrastructure stack?

We’re looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to join a fast-growing, VC-backed AI company building data infrastructure for regulated financial services organizations.

This is a senior, hands-on engineering role combining platform architecture with day-to-day ownership of production AWS infrastructure. You’ll determine how the platform evolves across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, deployment systems, event-driven services and durable workflows, while remaining close to implementation and production operations.

You’ll work directly with the CTO and engineering team, establishing scalable architectural patterns, improving developer velocity and helping the platform support a rapidly growing product and customer base.

The role:

• Own the architecture and evolution of the company’s production platform on AWS
• Design scalable event-driven systems and durable application workflows, including the use of Temporal where appropriate
• Build and operate Kubernetes infrastructure using Terraform and Docker
• Modernize cloud architecture across compute, storage, networking and deployment systems
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows and developer tooling
• Establish reusable platform patterns and integrations for Node.js and Python services
• Improve monitoring, alerting, observability and production reliability
• Support incident response, disaster recovery and infrastructure resilience
• Embed practical security controls and support SOC 2 compliance and audit readiness
• Advise the CTO and engineering team on platform architecture, technical trade-offs and long-term scalability
• Remain hands-on with implementation, troubleshooting and day-to-day production operations

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience across platform, infrastructure, cloud or distributed systems engineering
• Staff-level experience influencing platform architecture and making significant technical decisions
• Deep, hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform and Docker
• Strong CI/CD, monitoring and observability experience
• Experience designing distributed, event-driven or asynchronous systems
• Hands-on experience building platform infrastructure and integrations for Node.js and Python services
• A track record of improving platform scalability, reliability and developer velocity
• Experience working within a fast-moving startup, scale-up or high-caliber engineering environment
• Ideally, experience within FinTech, InsurTech, HealthTech or another regulated B2B SaaS environment
• Comfortable balancing long-term architecture with day-to-day infrastructure ownership
• Strong technical judgment, communication skills and the ability to operate independently

Experience with Temporal or another durable workflow orchestration platform would be particularly useful, as would exposure to SOC 2, AI products and security-conscious production environments.

Compensation:

• $200,000 – $250,000 base salary
• Equity
• Full medical/dental/vision healthcare and benefits
• 401k
• Unlimited PTO (Paid Time Off)
• New York City, four days per week in-office, pets are welcome!

This is an opportunity to take Staff-level ownership of a production platform at a high-growth AI company, combining architectural influence with genuine hands-on engineering. You’ll help define how the platform scales while remaining close to the infrastructure, code and operational challenges behind it.

If you’re a Senior Platform Engineer who enjoys both designing systems and operating them in production, please send your resume to Jennifer Palmer at IT Recruitment Solutions.