Platform Engineer (DevX)

Location: Los Angeles, California, United States. The role involves access to ITAR-controlled information and requires U.S. person status or eligibility for a federally issued export-control license.

Base salary: $123,000–$160,000 per year, plus equity.

Company

A high-growth aerospace product company developing high-power satellite platforms for commercial and U.S. government missions, with spacecraft production scaling toward 100 satellites per year.

What you will do

• Build and maintain golden-path deployment patterns for Amazon EKS with production guardrails.
• Drive secure and consistent AI adoption through governance, observability, and operational support.
• Build automated policies and CI/CD gates for code quality, test coverage, and safe deployments.
• Integrate monitoring, alerting, and SLOs, while tracking latency, cross-AZ transfer, IP consumption, and load-balancer efficiency.
• Create documentation, diagrams, and diagnostics that reduce platform support time.
• Evaluate AI platforms, models, and developer-experience tools, and simplify service identity and secure communication for platform users.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 2 years of experience building developer tooling, platforms, or deployment patterns.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, TypeScript, Python, or C#.
• Hands-on experience deploying applications on Amazon EKS.
• Experience with CI/CD using GitHub Actions or GitLab CI and disciplined Git workflows.
• Practical experience with AI-assisted development and its benefits and risks.

Nice to have

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or AWS CDK.
• Progressive delivery, canary rollouts, and policy-as-code.
• Observability with metrics, tracing, structured logs, L4/L7 telemetry, and SLI/SLO definition.
• Experience building internal developer platforms or golden-path tooling.
• Experience supporting manufacturing, aerospace, or other hardware-driven organizations.

Culture & Benefits

• Paid time off and paid parental leave.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life insurance and additional employee perks.
• Non-traditional career paths and varied professional experience are welcomed.