Staff Platform Engineer

Old Well Labs

full-time

Posted on: 9/25/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • North Carolina

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About the role

Lead the build-out of platform engineering at OWL and set long-term direction for infrastructure, security, and developer enablement
Partner with the VP of Engineering, product, and data teams to guide platform strategy and establish standards
Build reusable tools, patterns, and automation that give engineers autonomy (self-service capabilities)
Build Terraform modules, deployment scripts, and CI/CD workflows for developer self-service
Guide AWS infrastructure design and operations to ensure reliability, scalability, and efficiency
Lead SOC 2 readiness and enforce least-privilege access across AWS and databases; ISO 27001 experience relevant
Expand monitoring and product analytics with Datadog and PostHog so system health and product usage are visible and actionable
Stay hands-on while setting standards and delivering platform initiatives across multiple teams

8+ years in platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering
Proven track record leading platform initiatives across multiple teams
Expertise in AWS, Terraform, Docker, ECS or Fargate
Strong background in compliance-driven environments such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001
Experience building developer platforms that emphasize self-service and autonomy
Experience with Python (Flask, FastAPI, data pipelines) and React
Experience with AWS services: ECS, Fargate, EC2, RDS, Elasticache, VPC, Route53, S3, Step Functions
Experience with Docker and Terraform
Experience with CI/CD: GitHub with GitHub Workflows; familiarity with Sonar
Experience with databases: Postgres, SQL Server
Experience with monitoring and analytics: Datadog, PostHog
Will not sponsor visas; must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future
Bonus: Experience administering AWS IAM at scale
Bonus: Experience with database administration, ideally Postgres
Bonus: Background in application and infrastructure security