Senior Platform Engineer
True Talent Solutions Partners · New York · onsite
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join a platform engineering team building and operating the cloud infrastructure and data systems behind a public safety technology platform. You will own reliable, large-scale systems from design through production operations.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Design and operate data infrastructure for large-scale ingestion into object storage, databases, and vector stores to support fast retrieval.
- Make architectural decisions across hot and cold storage, distributed databases, and high-throughput messaging and streaming systems.
- Deploy and scale containerized services across environments using orchestration, declarative configuration, and GitOps workflows.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and tools that help engineering teams ship safely.
- Support secure, auditable, reliable operations in regulated or federal environments.
- Debug and tune systems across application code, storage, and networking, and mentor engineers through reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Five or more years of professional software engineering experience, including building and maintaining production systems.
- Hands-on experience with AWS production workloads and distributed systems.
- Experience designing large-scale data storage and retrieval systems, including hot and cold storage, and building production data pipelines.
- A strong DevOps foundation, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and automated deployments.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, Python or Go, PostgreSQL, object storage, Kafka, and vector or distributed SQL databases.
- Experience owning production systems end to end, operating containerized services, and providing on-call support.
- Experience in FedRAMP, federal, or other regulated environments is valued.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Base salary: $175,000 to $220,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
LOCATION
Hybrid role based in New York, New York, United States.