Senior Platform Engineer

I’m working with a VC-backed NYC start-up looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to take ownership of the infrastructure and developer platform behind a rapidly scaling product. This is a hands-on senior IC role where you’ll influence architecture, improve engineering velocity and own critical production infrastructure. What you’ll work on: AWS cloud architecture and production infrastructure Terraform / Infrastructure as Code CI/CD and developer tooling Observability, monitoring and incident response Distributed systems Networking and security PostgreSQL and data infrastructure Reliability, scalability and performance Building internal tooling and platform services Establishing infrastructure standards and engineering best practices What we’re looking for: Strong Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, DevOps or SRE background Experience owning production infrastructure at scale Deep knowledge of AWS and Infrastructure as Code Strong Kubernetes and containerisation experience Experience building tooling that improves developer productivity Understanding of distributed systems, networking and observability Comfortable making architectural decisions and owning projects end-to-end Experience within a start-up or high-growth environment is highly desirable This is ideal for someone who wants high ownership, complex technical problems and the opportunity to shape a platform rather than simply maintain one . #J-18808-Ljbffr Nextech Group Limited