Senior Platform Engineer
True Talent Solutions Partners · New York · onsite
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join a public safety technology team building and operating the cloud infrastructure and data platform behind large-scale search systems. You will own reliable distributed systems end to end, from architecture and implementation through deployment and on-call operations.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Design and operate data infrastructure for petabyte-scale ingestion into object storage and indexing in databases and vector stores.
- Shape storage and retrieval architecture, balancing hot and cold storage, distributed databases, and high-throughput messaging and streaming systems.
- Run and scale containerized services across orchestration platforms using declarative configuration and GitOps workflows.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and tools that support safe, frequent software delivery.
- Help maintain secure, auditable, reliable environments that meet federal or other regulated requirements.
- Debug and tune systems across application code, storage, and networking, and mentor engineers through reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- 5 or more years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record building and maintaining production systems.
- Hands-on experience with AWS production workloads, distributed systems, and large-scale data storage and retrieval.
- Experience building production data pipelines and owning services through deployment and on-call operations.
- A DevOps foundation that includes CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and automated deployments.
- Experience running containerized workloads with tools such as Docker and Kubernetes, and familiarity with Terraform and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD and Helm.
- Relevant technologies may include Python, Go, PostgreSQL, vector databases, object storage, Kafka, and distributed SQL databases.
- Experience in federal or regulated environments, such as FedRAMP, is valuable.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Base salary range: $175,000 to $220,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
LOCATION
Hybrid role based in New York, New York, United States.