Senior Platform Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to be the founding member of Burq's Platform team — the function that owns our engineering foundations: infrastructure, security, CI/CD, and reliability.Right now, our infrastructure runs on AWS with a combination of ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, and Step Functions. We have a strong contractor advising us, but we need a full-time engineer who can own this domain, execute on a significant infrastructure roadmap, and make every product team faster as a result.This is a high-leverage, high-ownership role. You will be designing and building the platform that Burq scales on for the next several years.Infrastructure
Own and execute the AWS account split — separating production, staging, and development into clean isolated environmentsLead the Aurora DB production migration with support from our infrastructure advisorManage and evolve our ECS Fargate services, RDS clusters, ElastiCache, SQS queues, and ALB configurationOwn Terraform — infrastructure as code, not click-opsSecurity & Access
Harden IAM — developer permission sets, production access controls, least-privilege enforcementAudit and lock down public S3 bucketsEnable AWS Config and Security Hub across all accountsOwn SOC 2 Type 2 readiness maintenance in partnership with SprintoCoordinate external penetration test cadenceCI/CD & Developer Experience
Own and improve our GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines — build times, test reliability, deployment velocityBuild out PR stack environments so product teams can test independentlyDrive the local development stack initiative — Docker Compose-based environments that replace shared preprodIntegrate AI-assisted testing into the CI pipelineObservability & Reliability
Own CloudWatch dashboards spanning ALB, ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, and target group healthLead post-incident reviews and ensure every incident produces a runbook entryPartner with product teams to distribute platform work as a standing sprint allocation — not a separate queue5+ years of engineering experience with 3+ years focused on infrastructure and platform engineeringDeep AWS expertise — ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, Lambda, account architectureTerraform proficiency — you write infrastructure as code and know why it mattersStrong CI/CD background — GitHub Actions, deployment pipelines, environment managementSecurity-minded — you know how to harden systems without creating friction for product engineersExperience with observability tooling — CloudWatch, Datadog, or equivalentWhy You’ll Love Working Here
Investing in youCompetitive salaryMedical coverageAccess to educational resources and courses
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