Platform Engineer

Cloud Platform Engineer | Series C Aerospace & AI Company | Boston | $200k-$250k Equity

Role: Cloud Platform Engineer

Location: Boston, MA

Salary: $200,000 - $250,000 Base Equity Benefits

The Role

A rapidly growing Series C technology company operating at the intersection of AI, aerospace, and critical infrastructure is looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer to help build and operate the cloud infrastructure that powers mission-critical systems.

This organization develops advanced decision-support software used across aviation, defense, energy, and other highly complex operational environments. Following significant recent funding from some of the industry's leading investors, they are entering an exciting new phase of growth and platform expansion.

As a Cloud Platform Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing, deploying, and managing the cloud infrastructure behind large-scale, real-world systems where reliability, performance, and resilience are critical. You'll work closely with engineering teams to ensure products can be deployed safely, monitored effectively, and operated at scale.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate production-grade cloud infrastructure supporting mission-critical applications.
• Design, implement, and maintain Kubernetes-based platforms and services.
• Develop and manage infrastructure-as-code solutions using modern tooling.
• Design and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, reliable, and frequent deployments.
• Partner with software engineers to deploy services, troubleshoot issues, and improve platform reliability.
• Enhance observability through monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling.
• Improve system scalability, performance, and resilience across distributed environments.
• Automate operational processes and reduce infrastructure toil.
• Participate in production support and incident response activities within a 24/7 environment.
• Contribute to technical design reviews and platform architecture discussions.

Qualifications

• Strong experience building and operating cloud infrastructure in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with AWS (preferred), or other major cloud providers such as GCP or Azure.
• Strong Kubernetes and containerization experience.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code technologies such as Terraform and Helm.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
• Familiarity with deployment safety practices, testing strategies, and rollback mechanisms.
• Experience supporting highly available production systems.
• Ability to contribute to architecture and infrastructure design decisions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Nice-to-Have Experience

• Exposure to regulated cloud environments such as FedRAMP.
• Experience with progressive deployment techniques including canary releases.
• Experience supporting high-availability systems with stringent uptime requirements.
• Familiarity with modern AI/LLM tools that improve engineering productivity and software delivery.

Professional Attributes

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.
• Able to balance operational excellence with delivery speed.
• Passionate about reliability, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities.

Why Join?

• Recently funded Series C company experiencing significant growth.
• Opportunity to work on technology impacting critical infrastructure at a national scale.
• Complex technical challenges involving cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and real-time operations.
• Highly collaborative engineering culture with strong technical leadership.
• Competitive compensation package including $200k-$250k base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits.

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