Platform Engineer

HiddenLayer

10d•Remote

About The Position

HiddenLayer is seeking a Platform Engineer to own the deployment, management, and evolution of its multi-prem platform across diverse customer environments, including bare-metal data centers and commercial and government-regulated environments. The role bridges the continuously deployed SaaS platform with shrink-wrapped customer-hosted releases, maintaining alignment, consistency, and operational excellence across deployments. It spans infrastructure, networking, Kubernetes, and secure automation in complex, regulated, and hybrid environments. The Platform Engineer will lead deployment and lifecycle management across commercial cloud, bare-metal, air-gapped, and IL4+ environments; automate consistent deployments; maintain parity between SaaS and customer-hosted software; and support secure releases, troubleshooting, upgrades, and incident response. The role also contributes to the multi-prem reference architecture and documents deployment patterns, templates, and procedures for automation and accreditation workflows. The position is remote within the United States. HiddenLayer is a remote global team that brings employees together a couple of times per year.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship and eligibility for U.S. Government clearance; Secret clearance or higher is preferred.
Proven success deploying and operating complex systems across multi-cloud and on-premises environments.
Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes orchestration, container pipelines, and infrastructure automation such as Terraform, Helm, and ArgoCD.
Strong networking foundation, including DNS, routing, VPC design, VPNs, firewalls, and service meshes.
Proficiency with secure CI/CD pipelines, including GitHub Actions.
Experience maintaining Linux systems, observability stacks, and automation tooling.
Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, DoD SRG, or NIST 800-53.

Nice To Haves

Five or more years of experience in platform, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering.
Experience deploying workloads into AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or other regulated cloud environments.
Experience deploying and maintaining software in classified, air-gapped, or disconnected environments.
Knowledge of supply chain security, including SLSA, SBOM, image signing, and provenance.
Background in AI/ML or data-centric security platforms.
Familiarity with Temporal, Kafka, or distributed systems architecture.
Experience maintaining multi-tenant platform parity between SaaS and customer-hosted versions.
Eligibility for Secret or higher U.S. Government clearance is preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead deployment and lifecycle management of the multi-prem platform across commercial cloud, bare-metal, air-gapped, and IL4+ environments.
Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code to automate consistent deployments across customer sites.
Keep customer-hosted shrink-wrapped software aligned with the continuously deployed SaaS platform.
Maintain and optimize Kubernetes clusters and container build pipelines.
Implement secure, reproducible container image build pipelines aligned with internal release processes.
Work with Engineering teams to harden deployments for regulated, classified, and air-gapped customer systems.
Document and version deployment patterns, templates, and procedures for automation and accreditation workflows.
Support incident response, troubleshooting, and upgrade cycles across multiple platform footprints.
Contribute to the architecture and evolution of the multi-prem reference design, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security parity with SaaS.

Benefits

Fully remote work, with periodic team gatherings.
Home office stipend and annual workspace upgrades.
Monthly internet and phone stipend.
Five health plan options, with some fully subsidized by HiddenLayer.
Vision insurance.
Dental insurance.
401(k) offerings.
Unlimited and flexible time off for salaried employees.
15 paid company holidays.
Dedicated learning and development fund for training, conferences, certifications, and industry events.