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Senior Software Engineer – Platform Infrastructure

Platform EngineerPlatform EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000Since 2014H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

Massachusetts + 1 moreAll locations: Massachusetts, Texas

Posted

92 days ago

Salary

$192.2K - $225.8K / year

Bachelor Degree6 yrs expEnglishAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesPythonRustGo

Job Description

• Architect, design, and develop platform services with a strong focus on scalability, security, and developer experience. • Lead operational design for reliability: build comprehensive observability, monitoring, and incident response automation into security-critical services. • Build automation and tooling to drive self-healing systems, proactive risk detection, failure recovery, and continuous resilience testing. • Collaborate with compliance, governance, and risk teams to translate regulatory and policy requirements into scalable technical controls. • Lead technical design reviews, security architecture reviews, and incident postmortems for platform-level incidents. • Mentor engineers across multiple disciplines on both security and operational best practices. • Own end-to-end delivery of services: from initial design and development through deployment, production hardening, and lifecycle maintenance.

Job Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in software engineering, SRE, or security engineering roles, with significant experience operating security platform services.
  • Strong backend software development experience (Go, Java, Rust, Python).
  • Expertise with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, service mesh, and container orchestration.
  • Strong understanding of security domains: IAM, OAuth2, OIDC, PKI, secrets management, policy engines, audit pipelines, zero trust architecture.
  • Experience building highly reliable, observable, and resilient production systems.
  • Operational expertise: SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, on-call leadership, incident management.
  • Strong collaboration skills to drive alignment across engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders.
  • Excellent communication skills with ability to influence technical and business leaders.
  • BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

Benefits

  • Offers Equity

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