Platform Engineer

Planning Center

1d•$200,000 - $235,000•Remote

About The Position

As a Platform Engineer, you'll help maintain and grow the infrastructure that powers Planning Center's applications and services. You'll start with clear, well-defined projects and close support and take on more ownership as you grow, eventually managing key pieces of our cloud infrastructure. We're looking for someone reliable and collaborative, who's excited to grow their craft and their understanding of how Planning Center builds and runs platform services.

Requirements

5+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure on AWS
Proven ability to lead infrastructure projects from design through rollout and launch
Expertise in distributed systems, deployment orchestration, and failure detection / handling
Hands-on experience with AWS Elastic Container Service, containers, and workload scheduling
Strong track record in reliability, incident response, and building maintainable, debuggable systems
Broad technical impact across systems through architecture, code review, mentorship, and team-level technical leadership

Nice To Haves

Experience hosting and maintaining Ruby on Rails applications at scale
Experience with deployment safety systems such as anomaly detection, progressive delivery, and automated rollback
Familiarity with event-driven architectures for deployment observability and notifications
Experience managing Infrastructure-as-Code at scale, including cloud governance and IAM in AWS
Background building developer platforms and internal tools that improve developer experience
Experience with core AWS services such as Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, and others

Responsibilities

Handle infrastructure work across a growing scope — from hand-picked, low-urgency familiarization tasks (AWS services, Datadog monitoring, deployments, low-impact automation) toward independently managing significant components such as container orchestration, database performance tuning, and cloud-service optimization
Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues with autonomy, seeking guidance on necessary changes and, in time, on architecture decisions
Implement and troubleshoot scalable, resilient cloud architectures using AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, and SNS
Engage in infrastructure-as-code projects and play an active role in CI/CD pipeline management, ensuring smooth, efficient deployments
Analyze and optimize cost and performance, balancing performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency
Grow in alignment with company infrastructure patterns and best practices
Engage in and help refine the team's collaborative processes
Mentor less-experienced engineers and facilitate learning, sharing knowledge through tech talks and documentation
Proactively identify and implement infrastructure improvements, such as automating manual processes or enhancing security
Consistently ask questions and provide feedback to teammates that demonstrate an effort to understand their work — growing toward feedback that is high-quality and actionable
Actively seek feedback and act on it constructively, continuously enhancing their technical and collaborative skills
Participate in on-call rotation, starting as a secondary observer and growing into a full participant
Proactively communicate your own needs and the needs of the work you're responsible for