Sr. Platform Engineer (Infra Pod)
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JobgetherSoftware Engineering
Based in United StatesFull-TimeSenior
Salary$180,000–$220,000 USD
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSRuby on RailsCI/CDTerraformData modeling
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience as a high-performing individual contributor, with a strong track record of building and operating production backend systems.
- Deep expertise in Ruby on Rails, including strong knowledge of application and data layers and hands-on experience developing and maintaining core backend services.
- Strong relational database expertise, including data modeling, query optimization, reading query plans, resolving slow queries and N+1 issues, and effective indexing strategies.
- Experience building and operating platform-level capabilities such as authentication and RBAC, job and queue systems, CI/CD, deployments, integrations, and shared engineering services.
- Ability to work comfortably across application and infrastructure layers, whether coming from an application engineering background with infrastructure expertise or a cloud/platform background with a willingness to work deeply in Rails.
- Proven experience handling complex production engineering challenges, including major framework upgrades, database migrations, zero-downtime schema changes, large-scale data backfills, dependency upgrades, and security remediation.
- A consistent approach to maintaining production codebases through dependency and package upgrades, treating technical maintenance as an ongoing engineering responsibility.
- Strong systems thinking and technical judgment, with the ability to create reusable patterns and abstractions that simplify complex systems for other engineers.
- Builder mindset with strong ownership, pragmatic problem-solving skills, and a bias toward execution.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and operations teams.
- Experience with AWS and Terraform is advantageous but not required.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the shared platform layer across critical systems, including cloud infrastructure, databases, CI/CD, source control, integrations, and core product services.
- Establish reusable infrastructure patterns, conventions, and abstractions that allow engineers to interact with complex systems consistently and confidently.
- Design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure with a strong focus on reliability, security, performance, and developer experience.
- Develop foundational backend services in Ruby on Rails, including capabilities related to authorization and RBAC, jobs and queues, deployments, integrations, and other shared services.
- Own infrastructure and platform capabilities supporting identity and access management, health information exchange, electronic medical records, integrations, and application services.
- Identify infrastructure and engineering bottlenecks and turn manual or repetitive processes into reliable, self-service workflows that improve developer productivity.
- Build platform capabilities that can scale alongside growing engineering teams, products, integrations, and infrastructure without introducing operational constraints.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to understand their needs and deliver shared capabilities that accelerate development and improve reliability.
- Define technical standards and architectural conventions that provide a strong foundation for other engineers and teams.
- Participate in production operations, troubleshooting, incident resolution, and continuous improvements to the reliability and resilience of critical systems.
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