Staff Platform Engineer

TL;DR

Staff Platform Engineer (AWS/Kubernetes): Architecting, deploying, and maintaining highly available multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure with an accent on scalability, security, and cost-efficiency. Focus on optimizing CI/CD pipelines, monitoring systems, and disaster recovery using Terraform, ArgoCD, Grafana, and AWS services.

Location: On-site in Boston, MA, US

Salary: $183.1K – $227K

Company

Leader in AI and ERP solutions for local and state governments in the U.S., serving over 2,000 cities, counties, and agencies.

What you will do

• Architect, deploy, and maintain scalable multi-tenant SaaS environment in AWS.
• Implement infrastructure as code with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Optimize AWS services for cost, performance, reliability, and disaster recovery.
• Enforce security policies, IAM, VPC, and compliance with SOC2 and StateRamp.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Argo Workflows.
• Set up monitoring/alerting with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana; lead incident response.
• Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related.
• 8+ years in software engineering focused on cloud ops, security, DevOps.
• 4+ years running Kubernetes at scale in production on public clouds.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, Go, or JavaScript.
• Proven AWS infrastructure design for SaaS; Terraform/CloudFormation expertise.
• Strong AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda); CI/CD tools; monitoring.
• Cloud security practices; problem-solving and communication skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, agile environment with respect, dedication, and fun culture.
• Comprehensive healthcare, flexible vacation, paid holidays, 401(k) match.
• Paid parental leave, wellness stipends, HSA contributions.
• Professional development, growth opportunities, collaborative offices with lunches.
• Performance-based culture promoting from within; global team of 800+.