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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 19 days inKind's roles stay open a median of 18 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 50% of inKind's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at inKind
- low 1 stale, 0 reposted of 8 open
- Hiring momentum
- 24 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from inKind's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for inKind.
About this role
The Senior Platform Engineer at inKind is responsible for managing and evolving the company's AWS cloud infrastructure, ensuring it is secure, reliable, and scalable. This role involves designing and implementing infrastructure solutions, leading architectural decisions, and collaborating with application engineers to maintain high availability and performance. The engineer will also handle incident responses and improve operational practices within a growing team.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of inKind as an employer.
What you need
- 8+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure in cloud environments
- Deep experience with AWS core services (EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, ElastiCache, ALB/NLB, CloudWatch, etc.)
- Strong understanding of containerized workloads and orchestration tradeoffs
- Proven experience designing systems for high availability, fault tolerance, and controlled failure
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent)
- Demonstrated ability to plan and execute infrastructure migrations safely
Nice to have
- Experience operating infrastructure for financial systems or other high-reliability domains
- Firsthand experience scaling infrastructure through periods of rapid growth
- Strong opinions about observability and operational hygiene, informed by past failures
- Experience simplifying, retiring, or rearchitecting over-engineered infrastructure
- Comfort working closely with a Rails-based application stack while remaining tool-agnostic
What you get
- Generous PTO and company holiday policy + company paid Short Term Disability
- 100% employer covered health and dental insurance for direct employees
- Vision plan available at employee’s additional cost
- Child Care Benefits and generous parental leave
Worth weighing
- Salary range is $190,000 - $200,000, DOE, which may be a consideration for candidates
- The role requires a high level of responsibility and ownership over production systems, which may not suit all candidates
- The position is remote, which may have implications for team collaboration and communication
Summarised from inKind's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by inKind on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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