What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Platform Engineer position at Connecticut Innovations?
Are you ready to join Connecticut Innovation’s vibrant community of innovators? Connecticut Innovations (“CI”) is Connecticut’s strategic venture capital arm, and we are passionate about serving our portfolio of 220 companies across various industries, with strengths in life sciences, technology, and climate tech.
Come join Arccos Golf. Golf’s #1 Game Tracker.!
About Arccos
Arccos is the global leader in golf data and AI, providing the game’s first AI-powered platform that automatically tracks shots and delivers personalized insights to help golfers play smarter and improve faster. As the Official Game Tracker of the PGA TOUR, Arccos has built a passionate community of golfers who use data to unlock their potential on the course.
Arccos works with many of golf’s most influential brands and players. Strategic partners include the PGA TOUR, PING, Titleist, COBRA PUMA Golf, Callaway, TaylorMade and Club Champion, as well as Matthew Fitzpatrick and Edoardo Molinari.
We exist to unlock human potential in sport through intelligence. Our mission is to improve the performance of dedicated golfers at every level by seamlessly collecting rich data and generating actionable insights.
Role Overview
Location: Stamford, CT (Hybrid: Monday-Wednesday in office) or Remote
Team: Software Engineering
Reports to: VP of Software Engineering | Dan Rohtbart | LinkedIn
We are hiring a Staff/Senior Engineer as our first Platform Engineer. Arccos has grown significantly, and is investing in operational excellence for engineering and our products. We need an engineer to build and improve our CI/CD, observability, and other similar systems. We are using Claude Code throughout the company, and we want to expand AI use in development so we can prototype better and develop faster. Our core tech stack is AWS, Lambda, MySQL, and Snowflake. Our CI/CD includes GitHub Actions, Yarn, Vite, Cargo, Gradle, Maven, and Xcode Cloud.
What You'll Do
- Partner with engineering leadership to prioritize project opportunities
- Design solutions and recommend vendors
- Pioneer use of new technologies
- Integrate platforms
- Train engineers to use solutions
- Communicate standards for using development platforms
Example Projects
- Observability: choose vendor, partner with engineers to implement distributed logs and traces on a pilot project, train engineers to finish implementation.
- Observability: design threshold-based alerting, implement for a few backend APIs, document standards, train engineers on standards to finish implementation.
- AI enablement: set and drive common standards into repositories
- AI enablement/security: dependency review on every PR
What We're Looking For
- 8 years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or similar
- 4 years experience with AWS
- 2 years experience with GitHub Actions
- 2 years experience with managing CI/CD pipelines with our build tools
- Experience training engineers to successfully adopt platform improvements
- Experience with AI-enabled development
- Experience working in small companies, under 20 engineers
- Strong communication and documentation skills
Nice to Have
- Interest in golf
- Experience with security engineering
- Experience with leading small teams
Benefits
- Competitive total compensation (base equity) of $180,000 - $250,000 based on experience.
- Comprehensive Health Coverage – Access to competitively priced medical, dental and vision insurance through our nationwide Professional Employer Organization (PEO).
- 401(k) with Company Match – Plan for your future with our employer-sponsored 401(k) program and company matching contributions.
- Flexible Time Off – Enjoy an unlimited PTO policy built on trust, accountability and performance.
- Golf Reimbursements – We support your passion for the game and the opportunity to utilize and test our unique product offerings.
- People and Culture – Join a highly engaged, passionate team that values collaboration, initiative, and a shared love for what we do.
Arccos is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
Salary : $180,000 - $250,000