Platform Engineer

Authorium•San Francisco, CA

6d•$148,750 - $201,250•Hybrid

About The Position

While Authorium is a distributed company, our SF office is where we tackle our "war room" challenges — from modularizing our core domain to whiteboarding the next generation of our workflow engine. You will be a primary driver of the technical integrity of our platform, setting the quality bar and shipping the features that will power our next major phase of expansion. We have deep product market fit and are scaling to meet the demands of the world's most complex government agencies.

Requirements

3+ years of professional experience in platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering, with strong fundamentals in distributed systems, networking, and cloud architecture.
Systems Thinker: Proven track record designing and operating reliable, scalable infrastructure — including service meshes, internal tooling, and developer-facing APIs or abstractions.
Security Minded: You treat security as a first-class platform concern — deep understanding of secrets management, network policies, IAM models, and supply chain security.
Quality Obsessed: A history of high-quality infrastructure-as-code, runbooks, and a drive to build self-service systems that reduce toil for the entire engineering org.

Nice To Haves

AWS Depth: Hands-on experience with ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC design, Parameter Store, and modern IaC tooling (Terraform, Pulumi, CDK).
Developer Experience Focus: Experience building internal platforms, golden paths, or self-service deployment tooling that measurably improves engineering velocity.
Regulated Industry Experience: Previous work in compliance-heavy environments such as GovTech, FinTech, or HealthTech (FedRAMP, SOC 2, HIPAA) — ideally with a focus on infrastructure compliance controls.
Observability & Reliability: Experience owning SLOs/SLAs, building out logging/metrics/tracing stacks (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.), and leading incident response.
Startup Experience: Previous experience at a company in the $5M–$30M ARR range.

Responsibilities

Architecting the Platform: Own the most complex platform work — permissions, authentication, enterprise integrations, CI/CD pipelines, and API management.
High-Bandwidth Collaboration: Work with engineering leadership to design platform capabilities, resolve production incidents, and translate engineering pain points into infrastructure solutions.
Technical Excellence: Set the standard for platform reliability. You'll lead infrastructure code reviews, define SLOs, and drive improvements to observability, automated testing, and deployment safety.
AI-Native Workflow: Use Cursor and Claude to automate infrastructure toil and focus on high-leverage platform design. You'll define our AI-first patterns for platform engineering — from AI-assisted runbooks to automated incident triage.