Senior Platform Engineer

True Talent Solutions Partners • New York, NY

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Join a team building the cloud infrastructure and data platform behind a large-scale computer vision product. The Senior Platform Engineer will own reliable, secure systems for ingesting, storing, and retrieving large volumes of data. The role covers designing and operating data pipelines and infrastructure, making architecture decisions across storage and distributed systems, deploying containerized services, and supporting secure, auditable operations in regulated or federal environments. The position is hybrid and based in New York, United States. Base salary is $175,000 to $220,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Requirements

• 5 to 10 years of experience, including at least 5 years building and maintaining production software systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS production workloads, distributed systems, and large-scale data storage and retrieval, including hot and cold storage.
• A solid DevOps foundation, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and automated deployments.
• Experience with backend or distributed systems in addition to any front-end work.
• Ownership of systems from design through deployment and on-call operations.
• Experience building production data pipelines and operating containerized services with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in FedRAMP or another federal or regulated environment is valued.
• Relevant tools and technologies include Terraform, GitOps, ArgoCD, Helm, Python, Go, PostgreSQL, vector databases, object storage, Kafka, and distributed SQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate data pipelines and infrastructure for high-volume ingestion, storage, indexing, and retrieval.
• Make architecture decisions across storage tiers, distributed databases, vector stores, and messaging or streaming systems.
• Deploy and scale containerized services across environments using orchestration platforms and GitOps workflows.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and developer tooling for safe, frequent releases.
• Support secure, auditable, reliable operations in regulated or federal environments.
• Troubleshoot and tune systems across application code, storage, and networking.
• Mentor engineers through reviews and pairing.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed