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 environments Lead the Aurora DB production migration with support from our infrastructure advisor Manage and evolve our ECS Fargate services, RDS clusters, ElastiCache, SQS queues, and ALB configuration Own Terraform — infrastructure as code, not click-ops Security & Access Harden IAM — developer permission sets, production access controls, least-privilege enforcement Audit and lock down public S3 buckets Enable AWS Config and Security Hub across all accounts Own SOC 2 Type 2 readiness maintenance in partnership with Sprinto Coordinate external penetration test cadence CI/CD & Developer Experience Own and improve our GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines — build times, test reliability, deployment velocity Build out PR stack environments so product teams can test independently Drive the local development stack initiative — Docker Compose-based environments that replace shared preprod Integrate AI-assisted testing into the CI pipeline Observability & Reliability Own CloudWatch dashboards spanning ALB, ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, and target group health Lead post-incident reviews and ensure every incident produces a runbook entry Partner with product teams to distribute platform work as a standing sprint allocation — not a separate queue Requirements 5+ years of engineering experience with 3+ years focused on infrastructure and platform engineering Deep AWS expertise — ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, Lambda, account architecture Terraform proficiency — you write infrastructure as code and know why it matters Strong CI/CD background — GitHub Actions, deployment pipelines, environment management Security-minded — you know how to harden systems without creating friction for product engineers Experience with observability tooling — CloudWatch, Datadog, or equivalent Benefits Why You’ll Love Working Here Investing in you 🙏 Competitive salary Medical coverage Access to educational resources and courses