Senior Platform Engineer

Burq

Senior Platform Engineer founding the infrastructure team at Burq for delivery solutions company. Designing platform systems and managing AWS infrastructure for scalable solutions.

Posted 7/15/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in AWS infrastructure management, including ECS, RDS, and IAM, while effectively implementing Terraform for infrastructure as code. Proven ability to enhance CI/CD pipelines and maintain security compliance, ensuring robust platform scalability and reliability.

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AWS ExpertiseTerraform ProficiencyCI/CD BackgroundSecurity MindedObservability Tooling Experience

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Hard Skills

AWS ECSAWS RDSAWS S3AWS IAMAWS CloudWatchAWS SQSTerraformGitHub ActionsCI/CD PipelinesInfrastructure As Code

Soft Skills

LeadershipCollaborationProblem-Solving

Tools & Technologies

Docker ComposeElastiCacheSQS QueuesALB ConfigurationAI-Assisted Testing

Certifications & Qualifications

SOC 2 Type 2 Readiness

Industry Keywords

Infrastructure EngineeringPlatform EngineeringSecurity ComplianceObservability

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDockerTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and build the platform that Burq scales on for the next several years
Own and execute the AWS account split — separating production, staging, and development into clean isolated environments
Lead the Aurora DB production migration with support from our infrastructure advisor
Manage and evolve our ECS Fargate services, RDS clusters, ElastiCache, SQS queues, and ALB configuration
Own Terraform — infrastructure as code, not click-ops
Harden IAM — developer permission sets, production access controls, least-privilege enforcement
Audit and lock down public S3 buckets
Enable AWS Config and Security Hub across all accounts
Own SOC 2 Type 2 readiness maintenance in partnership with Sprinto
Coordinate external penetration test cadence
Own and improve our GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines — build times, test reliability, deployment velocity
Build out PR stack environments so product teams can test independently
Drive the local development stack initiative — Docker Compose-based environments that replace shared preprod
Integrate AI-assisted testing into the CI pipeline
Own CloudWatch dashboards spanning ALB, ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, and target group health
Lead post-incident reviews and ensure every incident produces a runbook entry
Partner with product teams to distribute platform work as a standing sprint allocation — not a separate queue

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of engineering experience with 3+ years focused on infrastructure and platform engineering
Deep AWS expertise — ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, Lambda, account architecture
Terraform proficiency — you write infrastructure as code and know why it matters
Strong CI/CD background — GitHub Actions, deployment pipelines, environment management
Security-minded — you know how to harden systems without creating friction for product engineers
Experience with observability tooling — CloudWatch, Datadog, or equivalent

Benefits

Comp & perks

Fully Remote
Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance
Reimbursement for educational courses