Staff Platform Engineer

Role Description

We are looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to design and evolve the internal platform behind a large engineering and modernization effort at a federal agency. This is a senior, deeply hands-on role.

• Build the pipelines, automation, and self-service capabilities that let engineering teams across the agency ship to mission-critical systems quickly, safely, and reliably.
• Set platform standards, drive their adoption, and keep teams from drifting into one-off, fragmented approaches.
• Work closely with other engineers, product, data, and design.
• This is expected to be a full-time, project-based position contingent on contract award.
• Bixal is committed to your long-term success and offers a supportive, inclusive culture that values growth, innovation, and purpose-driven work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 8 years of demonstrated experience designing and evolving internal developer platforms that improve delivery speed, deployment safety, and reliability across teams.
• Deep, hands-on expertise in infrastructure automation, delivery pipelines, environment design, and secure provisioning for mission-critical systems.
• Experience on federal, regulated public-sector platforms.
• Proven ability to standardize observability, environment consistency, and release controls across multiple applications.
• A track record reducing operational toil through self-service platform capabilities and reusable engineering patterns.
• Ability to act as a hands-on platform leader who sets standards and drives adoption without creating fragmentation.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Public Trust clearance.

Requirements

• Experience with major cloud providers, infrastructure-as-code, and container orchestration.
• Experience working alongside agile engineering teams on a regular sprint cadence.
• Experience using AI tools to improve development throughput and team efficiency.

Benefits

• Flex hours
• 401K with matching incentive
• Parental Leave
• Medical/dental/vision benefits
• Flex Spending Account
• Company provided short-term disability and life insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 11 Paid holidays