Platform Engineer

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New York / $170000 - $200000 annum

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Salary
SALARY:

$170000 - $200000

Location

LOCATION

New York

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Title: Platform Engineer

Location: New York, NY (Hybrid)

Pay: $170k - $200k base + equity

About the Role

An established, high-growth technology company is seeking a Platform Engineer to serve as a technical anchor across its engineering organization. This role blends backend engineering, infrastructure, and SRE practices, helping shape a cohesive internal developer platform while building scalable systems and robust tooling. You'll be central to improving developer experience, platform reliability, and the foundations that support product development.

Responsibilities

  • Lead major platform initiatives with a focus on reliability, scalability, and developer velocity.
  • Drive technical design through RFCs and architecture documents, aligning decisions across teams.
  • Build and optimize CI/CD and GitOps workflows to improve performance, deployment safety, and release transparency.
  • Design, manage, and evolve AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform for consistency and cost efficiency.
  • Own containerization and orchestration strategies, including runtime environments, deployment patterns, and scaling.
  • Promote SRE best practices including SLO development, incident response improvements, and sustainable oncall processes.
  • Advance observability systems across metrics, logs, and tracing for improved debugging and system insights.
  • Strengthen platform security practices, including IAM design and secrets management.
  • Partner with backend teams on domain-driven design, service boundaries, and API contract quality.
  • Continuously enhance developer experience across local development, testing, deployment, and debugging workflows.

Must-Have Qualifications

  • Strong experience with infrastructure technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker.
  • Hands-on expertise with Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code tooling.
  • Solid backend engineering experience (Ruby on Rails, Node.js, or comparable languages/frameworks).
  • Experience designing and improving CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions or similar).
  • Strong knowledge of observability (Datadog preferred), SRE principles, and cloud security fundamentals.
  • Proven ability to design scalable distributed systems and influence platform-level architecture.

CONTACT

Bekim Doçaj

Principal Recruitment Consultant

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