
Senior Platform Engineer
fanvue
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
AWSMicroservicesPostgresTypeScript
About the role
- Build and evolve the infrastructure foundations that support Fanvue’s move toward a service-oriented architecture
- Enable stream teams to deploy and operate services independently using platform-provided tooling and patterns
- Design and maintain AWS infrastructure using AWS CDK (TypeScript), with a strong focus on safety, reuse, and automation
- Own and improve CI/CD pipelines, ensuring fast, reliable, and repeatable deployments
- Support database architecture evolution, including Aurora PostgreSQL ServerlessV2, service-specific data stores, and scaling strategies
- Build internal platform tools and automation to reduce operational toil and improve developer experience
- Improve observability and reliability through CloudWatch dashboards, alarms, and SLIs/SLOs
- Participate in on-call rotation, lead incident response when needed, and contribute to high-quality post-mortems
- Act as a consultative partner to stream teams, helping them make good infrastructure decisions without slowing them down
- Contribute to documentation, runbooks, and knowledge sharing to eliminate single points of failure
Requirements
- A senior engineer with strong experience building and operating AWS infrastructure in production
- Deeply hands-on with AWS CDK (TypeScript) and comfortable treating infrastructure as code
- Experienced with PostgreSQL, ideally Aurora/RDS, including performance tuning, replication, and scaling considerations
- Familiar with service-oriented architectures or microservices and the infrastructure patterns that support them
- Comfortable owning CI/CD pipelines and improving deployment reliability and safety
- Platform-minded and consultative, focused on enabling other teams rather than gatekeeping
- Proactive, autonomous, and aligned with Fanvue’s values of ownership, speed, and excellence
- Someone who enjoys reducing friction, eliminating toil, and making other engineers more effective
Benefits
- Unlimited holiday
- Remote working
- Flexible hours, according to when you perform best
- Budget for growth and wellbeing
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
AWS infrastructureAWS CDKTypeScriptPostgreSQLAuroraRDSCI/CD pipelinesinfrastructure as codeautomationobservability
Soft skills
consultativeproactiveautonomousownershipspeedexcellencecollaborationdocumentationknowledge sharingincident response