Staff Platform Engineer

Inspiren

135d • $180,000 - $220,000

About The Position

We are looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to take ownership of our infrastructure and developer experience. This is a unique role for someone who wants to remain deeply hands-on while also leading a small team of 2–4 engineers. You’ll consolidate responsibilities currently distributed across the org, and transition Platform Engineering into a focused, high-performing function inside Inspiren. You’ll partner closely with product engineering, data, and hardware teams while driving our efforts in CI/CD, observability, security, and compliance. This role combines technical depth with leadership: you’ll write code and build systems while also mentoring others and shaping the future of the team.

Requirements

• 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform/Infrastructure roles, with some leadership experience mentoring or guiding a small team.
• Hands-on with AWS (Lambda, SQS, SNS, CloudFront, S3, RDS, etc.), scaling infrastructure, troubleshooting production workloads, and optimizing cost and performance.
• Strong experience with serverless architectures.
• Proven track record building and refining pipelines (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins) with automated deployments, feature flags, rollbacks, backups, and disaster recovery.
• Skilled with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools to manage infrastructure at scale.
• Strong experience with monitoring/telemetry tools (Datadog, CloudWatch, New Relic, Sentry), setting up dashboards, configuring alerts, and running incident response.
• Familiarity with integrating tests, static analysis, and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with IoT platforms (e.g., AWS IoT Core), embedded Linux environments, and media/streaming pipelines (e.g., gStreamer).
• Experience with OTA update frameworks (e.g., Mender, Yocto) is a plus.
• Excited to transition Platform Engineering in-house, mentor engineers, and partner across Product, Data, and Hardware.

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing large fleets of distributed devices (IoT gateways, sensors, cameras), including provisioning, version management, and remote updates.
• Built monitoring and telemetry for hardware devices to track uptime, failures, and performance.
• Exposure to secure boot, TPM, encryption at rest, or data protection strategies for edge devices.
• Experience with SOC2, HIPAA, or other regulated environments where both hardware and cloud must meet strict standards.

Responsibilities

• Own the scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency of our cloud-based infrastructure.
• Proactively monitor capacity to match growth, troubleshoot and resolve issues, and implement backups and disaster recovery processes.
• Build and operate monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to detect issues before they impact customers.
• Participate in on-call, lead incident response, and drive blameless postmortems to continuously improve MTTR.
• Design, implement, and optimize pipelines that automate builds, tests, and deployments.
• Establish rollback procedures and runbooks for failed deployments, and continuously improve automation for both speed and reliability.
• Implement a comprehensive automated testing strategy within CI/CD.
• Configure quality gates, integrate static analysis and security scans, expand unit and integration test coverage, and build dashboards to provide visibility into pipeline health.
• Apply and enforce security best practices in infrastructure, IAM, and deployments.
• Support SOC2 and HIPAA compliance through robust access controls, data protection strategies, and secure coding practices.
• Partner with product and application engineers to ensure architectural decisions are reliable and scalable.
• Build a seamless onboarding experience so new engineers can set up environments quickly and confidently deploy their first changes.

Benefits

• Annual salary of $180,000-$220,000 + equity + benefits (including medical, dental, and vision)
• Flexible PTO
• Remote work option in the US or Canada, with NYC preferred.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees