Platform Engineer

Boston, MA | $210,000 Base + Equity | Series B | AWS | Python | Platform Engineer

Role: Platform Engineer

Location: Boston, MA

Salary: $160,000 - $210,000 + Equity + Benefits

Join a fast-growing, venture-backed technology company building cutting-edge AI-powered platforms that support complex operational environments across commercial and government sectors. Backed by leading institutional investors and entering an exciting phase of growth, this organization is expanding its engineering team to help scale next-generation products and infrastructure.

The Opportunity

We're looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer to play a key role in building and operating a secure, scalable cloud platform that powers mission-critical applications.

This is a highly impactful position where you'll work across infrastructure, platform engineering, and product development deploying and supporting cloud-native services while collaborating closely with product and engineering teams. You'll contribute directly to platform innovation, helping deliver AI-driven capabilities and integrating new data sources that create meaningful value for customers.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, deploy, scale, and maintain cloud-native infrastructure and services.
• Build and support secure, highly available platforms running on AWS and Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to develop and deliver new platform capabilities.
• Write production-quality code and contribute across the software development lifecycle.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines to enable efficient and reliable software delivery.
• Integrate new data sources and services to enhance platform functionality.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize distributed systems for performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Drive infrastructure automation using Infrastructure-as-Code practices and tooling.
• Support observability, monitoring, and platform reliability initiatives.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong experience with:
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Terraform
• Helm
• PostgreSQL
• Python
• Grafana and modern observability tooling
• Deep understanding of CI/CD practices and deployment automation.
• Experience managing large-scale distributed systems in production environments.
• Strong proficiency in writing maintainable, production-ready Python code.
• Experience with object-oriented programming principles and modern software engineering practices.
• Ability to work independently, take ownership, and drive projects forward.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, high-growth environment.
• Willingness to travel as needed and adapt to evolving business priorities.

Why Join?

• Competitive base salary of $160,000–$210,000
• Equity package
• Opportunity to work on AI-powered technology with real-world impact
• Fast-growing Series B environment with strong investor backing
• High level of ownership and technical influence
• Collaborative engineering culture focused on innovation and execution

Interview Process

The hiring process is designed to be collaborative and practical rather than a traditional examination. Conversations are tailored to each candidate and focused on real-world challenges, providing insight into what it would be like to work together on meaningful technical problems.

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