Senior Platform Engineer (Serverless/AWS)

TL;DR

Senior Platform Engineer (Serverless/AWS): Building and maintaining infrastructure for an AI-powered underwriting productivity suite with an accent on serverless architectures, multi-region deployments, and CI/CD pipelines. Focus on scaling systems for fast delivery, optimizing monitoring, and managing infrastructure as code across AWS and GCP.

Location: Remote (East Coast US only, must be currently based in the US with full rights to work, no sponsorship)

Salary: $100,000–$140,000

Company

hirify.global, now part of Applied Systems, transforms the insurance industry with an AI-powered platform driving efficiency for insurers and brokers.

What you will do

• Build and maintain infrastructure for single and multi-tenant deployments across Europe, US, and Australia on AWS and GCP.
• Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform and optimize CI/CD pipelines with CircleCI.
• Develop monitoring systems with Datadog and integrate third-party services like Auth0 and ThoughtSpot.
• Scale platform for high performance and fast delivery while balancing system complexity.
• Provide technical feedback to product managers, contribute to roadmaps, and suggest features based on engineering insights.

Requirements

• Must be based in the US East Coast with full work rights (no sponsorship)
• Strong proven experience in serverless: Lambda/SQS/SNS/S3/Aurora Serverless/GCP Vertex AI/GCP BigQuery
• Strong experience with AWS services: RDS Aurora Postgres, APIGW, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, SES, Cloudfront, Secret Manager, Certificate Manager
• Experience building and maintaining multi-region deployments
• Terraform/Terragrunt experience for single tenant deployments
• Experience using an OOP language like Python and knowledge of networking fundamentals including VPC and security
• Customer-centric, values-driven, collaborative with great communication skills

Nice to have

• ECS and Fargate
• Designing single and multi-tenancy solutions
• Building and maintaining Kubernetes clusters using AWS EKS
• Maintaining CI/CD pipelines with CircleCI
• Monitoring with Datadog (logs, APMs, profiling, app security)
• Prior GCP experience, GDPR compliant systems, event-driven serverless apps, Cloudflare/Orca/Vanta

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working and remote options
• Professional development budget and conference access
• Annual company retreats
• Mission-driven culture valuing diversity, collaboration, and people first
• Competitive salary with potential bonus and commission