Senior Platform Engineer

Tango

Senior Platform Engineer at Tango Analytics architecting and codifying AWS and Azure infrastructure, establishing SRE practices, and building internal developer platforms.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $140,000 - $175,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSAzureCloudEC2FluxGrafanaKubernetesPrometheusTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

As a Senior Platform Engineer you will be a founding team member with a clear, three-part mission: fully rearchitect and codify our cloud estate on AWS and Azure, stand up a world-class SRE and observability practice, and build an Internal Developer Platform with golden paths that make shipping software fast, safe, and self-service.
Cloud Modernization — Rearchitect & Codify Migrate all existing AWS and Azure infrastructure to OpenTofu/Terraform and Ansible; establish module standards, remote state, and GitOps-based plan/apply pipelines — no unmanaged resources
Implement policy-as-code (OPA/Conftest, AWS SCPs, Azure Policy) to enforce security, tagging, and compliance guardrails at the platform layer — governance embedded, not bolted on
Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules for compute (EKS, AKS, EC2), networking, storage, databases, and identity as shared building blocks for all engineering teams
Design and implement the full observability stack: metrics (Prometheus/Datadog), logs (Loki/OpenSearch), traces (Tempo/Datadog APM), and dashboards (Grafana) — instrumented end-to-end via OpenTelemetry
Define SLIs and SLOs for all platform shared services and critical applications; build error budget dashboards and burn-rate alerting — alert on symptoms, not raw metrics
Deploy and operate a developer portal (Backstage, GitHub or equivalent) as the single front door: service catalog, scaffolding templates, runbooks, API docs, and on-call ownership all in one place

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years in platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering with direct production ownership on AWS and/or Azure
Deep OpenTofu/Terraform proficiency: module authoring, state management, workspace strategy, remote backends, and CI/CD integration; Terramate a plus
Strong Kubernetes operations: EKS and/or AKS cluster lifecycle, Helm, admission controllers, RBAC, network policies, and autoscaling
Hands-on observability experience with two or more of: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry — including SLI/SLO definition and alert engineering
CI/CD platform experience: GitHub Actions pipeline authoring, reusable workflow design, and container build/scan pipeline ownership
GitOps: ArgoCD or Flux for Kubernetes continuous delivery; progressive delivery patterns (canary, blue-green) a strong plus
IDP experience: Backstage or equivalent developer portal, GitHub, scaffolding templates, service catalog design, or self-service provisioning tooling
Security-first mindset: policy-as-code, IaC scanning, secrets management, container hardening, and shift-left security practices
Strong communication and documentation skills; comfortable presenting architecture decisions to engineering peers and leadership

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive Benefits Including health, dental, and vision insurance
401(k) plan with company match
Generous paid time off to support your well-being
Flexible Work Environment Whether remote, hybrid, or in-office

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWSAzureOpenTofuTerraformAnsibleKubernetesPrometheusGrafanaGitHub Actionspolicy-as-code

Soft Skills

strong communicationdocumentation skillspresentation skills