Platform Engineer

AirOps

Platform Engineer establishing deployment pipelines and incident reduction systems for an AI-driven content engineering platform startup. Collaborating closely with engineering teams to enhance productivity and reliability.

Posted 5/2/2026full-timeNew York City • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSRubyRuby on Rails

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

The deployment pipeline end to end: CI/CD from commit to production, including staging build gating, automated rollback, and zero-manual-step deploys
Environment parity across dev, staging, and production: DB initialization, auth configs, integration consistency, and review apps that actually reflect reality
Incident reduction infrastructure: app-level health checks, migration safeguards, automated alerting on deploy failures, and deployment guardrails that prevent the class of outages we've had
Observability that produces signal, not noise: fixing false-positive exceptions, making request time metrics useful, and cleaning up tech debt in service naming
Agentic coding integration: evaluating and deploying AI-assisted developer tooling (automated bug trackers, code review automation, environment provisioning) to accelerate engineering productivity
ECS operations and infrastructure management: running tasks, container orchestration, RDS, and new environment setup

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years building and improving CI/CD pipelines across dev, staging, and production environments. You've designed these systems, not just consumed them.
Production AWS experience with ECS, RDS, and related services. You can debug infrastructure issues live, not just provision from templates.
A mix of startup and larger-scale experience. You know what "good enough for now" looks like at a 50-person company and what breaks when you don't invest at 200.
A track record of eliminating deployment toil. You've automated away manual steps, built guardrails, or redesigned workflows that measurably improved reliability.
Opinions about developer productivity backed by action. You've shipped tooling or process improvements because you saw the need, not because it was on your sprint board.
Solid fundamentals in database operations and security practices in production environments.
Hands-on use of agentic coding tools in real workflows, with a clear view of both the upside and the limitations
Nice to haves
Ruby on Rails deployment experience
Experience building automated developer tooling that a team actually adopted

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity in a fast-growing startup
Competitive benefits package tailored to your location
Flexible time off policy
Parental Leave
A fun-loving and (just a bit) nerdy team that loves to move fast!

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Hard Skills & Tools

CI/CDAWSECSRDSdatabase operationssecurity practicesRuby on Railsautomated developer toolingincident reductionobservability

Soft Skills

developer productivityproblem-solvingworkflow redesignautomationcommunication