Senior Platform Engineer

Quindar

Senior Platform Engineer at Quindar developing modern satellite operations software infrastructure. Collaborate with engineering teams on Kubernetes deployment strategy and DevSecOps practices.

Posted 4/12/2026full-timeARVADA • California, District of Columbia, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $145,000 - $186,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesLinuxNoSQLPythonSplunkTerraformUnix

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Architect, automate, test, deploy, and maintain a well-designed and highly available software infrastructure deployed in Kubernetes within cloud or on-premises environments.
Implement practices to enable DevSecOps with a focus on security and compliance for SOC2, NIST 800-171, and FedRAMP Medium controls.
You will own the Kubernetes deployment strategy and work with the software development team to ensure a successful architecture and software product.
You will help develop secure ingress and egress to customer and vendor data centers in a multi and single-tenant environment.
Provide best practices for availability, latency, and performance of services.
Spend time working directly with Quindar’s customers to ensure successful architecture deployment to both cloud environments and offline or secure facilities while ensuring alignment to a clean infrastructure vision.
Be a part of the engineering team of frontend and backend engineers working in an Agile Scrum environment.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related field)
3+ years of professional experience as a reliability, systems, DevOps, infrastructure, or platform engineer
Expertise managing Kubernetes-based architecture and providing platform infrastructure in a production environment
Strong proficiency developing Infrastructure as Code (IAC) solutions using Terraform or alternative tools
Proficiency in Python and experience working with software teams developing distributed microservice software capabilities
Working knowledge of monitoring tools such as New Relic, DataDog, Splunk, AWS CloudWatch or similar
Familiarity with cloud services in AWS (preferred) / Azure / GCP and ability to make trades on cloud native vs self-hosted software capabilities
Understanding of networking using VPN’s, NLB/ALB’s, HTTPS, TLS, and CDN
Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, containerized applications, and serverless architecture
Strong knowledge of designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting APIs services, distributed NoSQL and relational databases, caching systems, event-driven and multi-tier architectures
Strong knowledge of task automation and CI/CD pipeline building, preferably with GitHub actions but not required
Understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems
Knowledge of cloud security best practices and cost-effective cloud architecture
Use of identity and access management via Auth0 or Okta
Familiarity with Git and GitHub or similar framework for version control.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family with 100% coverage for employees.
We work in a cutting edge industry and you will get the opportunity to be part of a small team with a large direct impact on the success of our customers’ space missions!
We take work life balance very seriously. We require employees to take 15 days off but provide unlimited PTO and follow most US federal government holidays.
Mental health is just as important as physical so we provide quarterly health & wellness benefits.
We encourage employees to save for retirement and provide 4% 401(k) matching.
Annually we have a 4-day company offsite. Previous locations include San Francisco, Nashville, Denver, Santa Fe, New Orleans, San Diego, Bozeman, and New York City.

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Hard Skills & Tools

KubernetesInfrastructure as CodeTerraformPythonAPIsNoSQL databasesrelational databasesCI/CDtask automationcloud security

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingcustomer engagementAgile methodology

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceSOC2 complianceNIST 800-171 complianceFedRAMP Medium compliance