Senior Platform Engineer
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CitianTransportation technology
You can work remotely within the US or hybrid in our Washington, D.C. office.Full-TimeSenior
Salary130,000 - 180,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7+ years running production systems, 4+ of them on AWS
- Required Skills
- AWSDockerPostgreSQLPythonKubernetesSnowflakeTypeScriptCI/CDTerraform
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
- 7+ years running production systems, including 4+ years on AWS (IAM, networking, RDS, S3 and CloudWatch).
- Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform, AWS CDK or CloudFormation.
- Experience designing and running CI/CD pipelines with reliable deploys and rollback, using GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar.
- Experience with Docker and container orchestration such as Kubernetes/EKS or ECS.
- Production database administration experience, including performance tuning, backup and restore, and migrations.
- Experience with observability: metrics, logs, traces and alerting.
- Experience leading incident response and running postmortems.
- Experience operating in a compliance environment such as SOC 2, GovRAMP/FedRAMP, CJIS or HIPAA, including change control, access reviews and audit evidence.
- Strong Python or TypeScript for building tools, plus hands-on agentic coding with Claude Code or similar.
- Ability to break work into agent-sized tasks, write specs and tests agents can work against, and critically review agent output.
- Clear written communication and ability to document work.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and run CI/CD pipelines for reliable builds, tests, deployments and rollbacks, with versioned releases and deployment records.
- Establish on-call, runbooks and an incident process, and participate in the on-call rotation.
- Set up monitoring, error tracking and alerting for applications and scheduled data pipelines.
- Own infrastructure as code, environments and cloud cost, including bringing hand-built infrastructure into code.
- Assess CI/CD, container orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, branching and release tooling, and lead changes where they pay off.
- Administer PostgreSQL (RDS), Snowflake and S3, including backups, tested restores, access, performance and cost.
- Build internal tooling, reusable skills and agents to help engineers build, test, deploy and operate safely.
- Set service-level objectives with product and customer success, and report against them.
- Help build and operate AWS GovCloud environments for government customers with CJIS requirements.
- Set platform standards, build security controls with engineering leadership and the SOC 2 program, and mentor engineers on operating what they build.
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