Platform Engineer

GovSignals•New York, NY

1d•$170,000 - $220,000

About The Position

You'll work directly with the CTO and co-founder to design and build the systems that everything at GovSignals runs on — from serverless runtimes to Kubernetes-based infrastructure. This isn't application code. This is the platform underneath it. You'll architect, implement, and operate high-performance backend services in TypeScript, deploy them across containerized and edge environments, and build the tooling that lets product engineers ship fast, securely, and with confidence. Your decisions define how software runs here — balancing speed, reliability, and scale across an AI-driven platform that's growing fast. If you've built platforms that other engineers depend on and take pride in systems that just work, this is your role.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in backend, platform, or infrastructure engineering roles
Experience in building and deploying production services (e.g. Typescript or Python)
Experience scaling Docker and Kubernetes in live environments
Experience with Postgres and data modeling at scale and overtime
Experience with observability stacks (e.g. OpenTelemetry)
Proven ability to move across layers — from backend services to runtime deployments — with speed and precision

Nice To Haves

Contributions to open-source platform or infrastructure tooling
Familiarity with FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, or CMMC frameworks
Interest in AI-assisted engineering or automation of developer workflows
Prior startup or early-stage experience with high ownership and rapid iteration

Responsibilities

Maintain high compliance environments running on the edge (Cloudflare) and in containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
Optimize and scale our data platform, including Postgres with local replication and S3 and R2 object storage
Build the core systems — data flows, deployment tooling, and runtime frameworks — that power GovSignals' AI platform
Prototype and scale new platform capabilities that make development faster and more consistent
Own CI/CD and automation that make shipping seamless and auditable
Create tools and workflows that remove friction and accelerate product delivery
Engineer secure-by-default systems with strong automation, minimalism, and clear provenance
Balance speed and reliability through simplicity and sound technical design
Partner with the Product team to design platform features that multiply their output
Work directly with leadership to evolve infrastructure strategy and accelerate developer velocity