
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