Senior Platform Engineer

Avante•Seattle, WA

9h•$180,000 - $220,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Ask any employee to explain their benefits, and you'll likely get a confused shrug. Ask any HR leader if their benefits investment is working, and you'll get an honest "I don't know." For employees, benefits are confusing and overwhelming. For HR and finance leaders, benefits are the second-largest expense, but they lack the visibility to know what's working and what's wasted. At Avante, we're changing that. We're the first AI-native benefits platform built to turn benefits complexity into clarity. For employees, Avante acts like a personal guide, making benefits simple to understand and use. For leaders, Avante unifies fragmented data and delivers real-time insights so they can improve programs, control costs, and prove ROI. We're looking for a senior engineer to own Avante's production infrastructure, security posture, and developer platform. Our infrastructure is mature. We're 100% on IaC (Terraform + Terragrunt), fully deployed on Azure, and the foundation is solid. You'll be the technical owner of that environment: the person who sets architectural standards, keeps the platform reliable and secure, and makes sure a small engineering team can punch well above its weight. Avante is also an agentic engineering organization. AI agents write production code, open pull requests, and operate across our product surfaces alongside our engineers. That creates real and interesting infrastructure challenges, from CI/CD automation to security gating, and you'll contribute to solving them. But the core of this role is owning the platform that everything else runs on.

Requirements

5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time spent on infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or security engineering.
Production infrastructure ownership.
Security engineering depth.
Interest in the CI/CD problem we're solving.
Generalist instincts with infrastructure depth.
Strong communication and genuine interest in the problems you're solving.

Nice To Haves

Azure experience is preferred; AWS or GCP transfers well.
Strong with Terraform (Terragrunt experience is a plus), containerized deployments, networking, and reliability engineering.
Experience with automated vulnerability scanning, secrets management, access control, and compliance frameworks.
HIPAA or SOC 2 familiarity is a strong plus given that we handle PHI.