Senior Platform Engineer

Security Journey

Senior Platform Engineer responsible for scaling AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes environments for secure coding training platforms. Emphasizing developer experience and operational efficiency in a remote-first setup.

Posted 5/8/2026full-timeRemote • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDistributed SystemsKubernetesTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own day-to-day platform operations across AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes environments.
Improve reliability, scalability, and performance of systems supporting our learning platform.
Operate and evolve multiple EKS clusters across production and non-production environments.
Build internal self-service tooling and engineering guardrails that help developers ship safely and independently.
Improve CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions and GitOps practices with ArgoCD.
Drive observability improvements using DataDog, including dashboards, alerting, and incident response readiness.
Partner with software engineers, QA, product, and security teams to remove friction and increase delivery velocity.
Lead infrastructure changes end-to-end using Terraform and modern IaC practices.
Reduce operational toil through automation, standardization, and thoughtful platform design.
Participate in an on-call rotation focused on ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement.
Mentor teammates through collaboration, code review, and operational best practices.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or related infrastructure roles.
Strong hands-on experience operating production workloads in AWS.
Strong Kubernetes experience (EKS preferred).
Experience managing infrastructure with Terraform or equivalent IaC tooling.
Experience building or owning CI/CD systems.
Strong troubleshooting skills across networking, containers, distributed systems, and production incidents.
Ability to balance immediate operational needs with long-term engineering improvements.
Strong written communication and comfort working in a remote-first environment.
U.S. citizenship and U.S.-based residency.

Benefits

Comp & perks

We are a remote-first company with an office in Apex, NC for optional in-person collaboration.

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWSKubernetesEKSTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsGitOpsArgoCDDataDogautomation

Soft Skills

troubleshootingcommunicationcollaborationmentoringproblem-solvingleadershipcontinuous improvementoperational excellenceteamworkadaptability