Senior Platform Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 2, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 31, 2026.
About the Role
Join a public safety technology team building and operating the cloud data platform behind large-scale search and retrieval systems. You will own core infrastructure and distributed services, helping make them reliable, secure, and scalable.
What You'll Do
Design and operate data infrastructure for large-scale ingestion into object storage and indexing in databases and vector stores.
Make architecture decisions across storage tiers, distributed databases, and high-throughput messaging and streaming systems.
Deploy and scale containerized services across environments using orchestration platforms, declarative configuration, and GitOps workflows.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and tools that support safe, frequent releases.
Help operate secure, auditable systems in federal or other regulated environments.
Debug and tune systems across application code, storage, and networking, and mentor engineers through reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.
What We're Looking For
Five or more years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems, ideally within a 5 to 10 year career range.
Hands-on experience with AWS production workloads and designing large-scale data storage and retrieval across hot and cold tiers.
A strong foundation in distributed systems, backend engineering, production data pipelines, and end-to-end ownership, including deployment and on-call operations.
Experience with DevOps practices such as CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and automated deployments.
Experience running containerized services with Docker and Kubernetes, and familiarity with Terraform, GitOps, ArgoCD, and Helm.
Familiarity with Python or Go, PostgreSQL, vector databases, S3 or similar object storage, Kafka, and distributed SQL databases.
Federal, FedRAMP, or other regulated-environment experience is helpful.
Must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary range: $175,000 to $220,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
Hybrid role based in New York, United States.