Senior Platform Engineer

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.