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Senior Platform Engineer – Encryption, Data Security

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full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $152,000 - $228,500 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of secure infrastructure services supporting 30+ development teams.
  • Own and evolve end-to-end encryption strategies across:
  • Service-to-service communication
  • Data at rest
  • Data in transit
  • Drive the design and adoption of automated certificate lifecycle management (including rotation and revocation).
  • Define and implement platform-wide approaches to data classification and labeling.
  • Act as a technical leader and subject matter expert in encryption and data security across the organization.
  • Build and maintain infrastructure as code using GitOps principles, setting standards for others to follow.
  • Guide and support teams in securely integrating with platform services and adopting best practices.
  • Lead incident response and complex troubleshooting across infrastructure, networking, and distributed systems.
  • Identify and drive improvements in reliability, scalability, and security across the platform.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions and long-term platform strategy.
  • Mentor other engineers and elevate engineering standards across the team.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and help evolve operational excellence practices.

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in TLS, PKI, certificate chains, and certificate lifecycle management.
  • Strong understanding of encryption fundamentals (symmetric/asymmetric cryptography, key management, rotation strategies).
  • Proven experience designing and operating secure systems at scale.
  • Strong experience in platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or similar roles.
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language and ability to write production-grade code.
  • Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and GitOps-based workflows.
  • Deep expertise in AWS, including services such as EC2, S3, VPC, EKS, ALB/ELB, and Transit Gateway.
  • Strong Linux engineering skills, including networking, storage, and OS fundamentals.
  • Solid understanding of network security and experience with CDNs.
  • Experience working with at least one database, Elasticsearch or Mongodb preferred.
  • Experience working with distributed systems and debugging complex production issues.
  • Ability to take ownership of ambiguous problems and drive them to resolution.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to influence across teams.
Benefits
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • life insurance
  • 401K
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
TLSPKIcertificate lifecycle managementencryption fundamentalssymmetric cryptographyasymmetric cryptographyInfrastructure as CodeGitOpsAWSLinux
Soft Skills
technical leadershipmentoringcommunicationproblem ownershipinfluencecollaborationincident responsetroubleshootingsupporting teamsevolving practices