Senior Platform Engineer
RemoteHunter · United States
- Hybrid
- Full-time
- $177,500 / year
- United States
Job highlights
- Enhance platform reliability and efficiency in AWS.
- Lead observability, monitoring, and alerting initiatives.
- Optimize AWS infrastructure costs and performance.
- Design and execute performance testing strategies.
- Collaborate to improve system scalability and reliability.
About the role
About Our Client
The organization operates in the direct mail technology industry, addressing the challenge of modernizing and automating a traditionally manual marketing channel. By offering a logistics and fulfillment platform, the company enables businesses to create and scale high-quality, personalized direct mail programs without operational complexity. The organization is expanding its product offerings and team to adapt to evolving customer needs and to advance the future of direct mail.
About the Opportunity
The Senior Platform Engineer role focuses on enhancing the platform infrastructure’s reliability, observability, performance, and cost efficiency within AWS environments. This position plays a critical role in improving telemetry, monitoring, performance testing, and infrastructure optimization, thereby supporting scalable and operationally efficient systems. The role collaborates closely with engineering teams to elevate platform reliability and infrastructure efficiency in a fast-paced distributed environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead observability efforts across infrastructure and applications
- Design and maintain monitoring, telemetry, dashboards, tracing, and alerting systems
- Enhance visibility into platform health, reliability, and performance
- Improve incident detection, troubleshooting, and operational response
- Establish observability standards and best practices
- Drive infrastructure cost optimization across AWS services
- Analyze and optimize infrastructure utilization and performance
- Maintain infrastructure-as-code workflows
- Design and manage scalable performance testing environments and tooling
- Execute and analyze load and performance tests
- Support HashiCorp Nomad orchestration environments
- Troubleshoot complex production and infrastructure issues
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve scalability, reliability, and efficiency
- Develop and maintain operational documentation and best practices
Requirements
- Minimum 7 years in platform, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering
- Hands-on experience with HashiCorp Nomad
- Deep expertise with Datadog and OpenTelemetry
- Experience with Grafana or similar observability platforms
- Strong knowledge of distributed tracing, metrics, logging, and monitoring
- Skilled in building dashboards, alerts, and telemetry pipelines
- Proven AWS cost optimization experience
- Expertise in S3 storage optimization and lifecycle management
- Experience in performance/load testing environments
- Strong troubleshooting skills in distributed systems
- Proficient with AWS infrastructure and Terraform
- Experience balancing reliability, observability, and cost efficiency at scale
- Familiarity with distributed architectures using Redis, SQS, or Temporal
- Experience managing Elasticsearch or OpenSearch clusters
- Ability to work effectively in fast-paced environments
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities
Nice to Have
- Exposure to PostgreSQL RDS to Aurora migrations
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with CI/CD automation
- Programming experience in Go, Python, or TypeScript
Pay Range and Compensation Package
• Annual base salary range: $160,000 - $177,500• Additional compensation includes Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
Equal Opportunity Statement
Our client is an equal opportunity employer. They celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or national origin.
Note
RemoteHunter is not the Employer of Record (EOR) for this role. Our purpose in this opportunity is to connect exceptional candidates with leading employers. We help job seekers worldwide discover roles that match their goals and guide them to complete their full application directly through the hiring company’s career page or ATS.
Key skills/competency
- Senior Platform Engineer
- AWS
- HashiCorp Nomad
- Datadog
- OpenTelemetry
- Observability
- Infrastructure as Code
- Performance Testing
- Cost Optimization
- Distributed Systems
Skills & topics
- Senior Platform Engineer
- AWS
- HashiCorp Nomad
- Datadog
- OpenTelemetry
- Observability
- Infrastructure as Code
- Performance Testing
- Cost Optimization
- Distributed Systems
- SRE
- Platform Engineering
- Terraform
- Grafana
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Go
- Python
- TypeScript
- Kubernetes
How to get hired
- Tailor your resume: Highlight AWS, Nomad, Datadog, and observability experience.
- Showcase achievements: Quantify impact on reliability, performance, and cost savings.
- Prepare for technical questions: Review distributed systems, AWS, and IaC concepts.
- Understand the company: Research direct mail tech and the platform's role.
- Network if possible: Connect with current or former employees on LinkedIn.
Technical preparation
Behavioral questions
Frequently asked questions
- What are the key responsibilities for a Senior Platform Engineer at RemoteHunter's client?
- The Senior Platform Engineer will focus on enhancing AWS platform infrastructure reliability, observability, performance, and cost efficiency. Key responsibilities include leading observability efforts, designing monitoring systems, driving cost optimization, managing infrastructure-as-code, and troubleshooting complex production issues.
- What technical skills are essential for this Senior Platform Engineer role?
- Essential technical skills include a minimum of 7 years in platform/infrastructure/SRE, hands-on experience with HashiCorp Nomad, deep expertise in Datadog and OpenTelemetry, strong knowledge of distributed tracing, metrics, logging, monitoring, and proficient AWS infrastructure with Terraform. Proven AWS cost optimization experience is also critical.
- What is the typical career path for a Senior Platform Engineer?
- A Senior Platform Engineer role often leads to Principal Platform Engineer, Staff Engineer, or management positions like Engineering Manager or Director of Infrastructure. Continuous learning in cloud technologies, SRE principles, and system architecture is key for career advancement.
- How does RemoteHunter help candidates apply for this Senior Platform Engineer role?
- RemoteHunter connects exceptional candidates with leading employers. For this role, RemoteHunter will guide you to complete your full application directly through the hiring company’s career page or ATS, not acting as the employer of record.
- What is the expected salary range for the Senior Platform Engineer position?
- The annual base salary for the Senior Platform Engineer position ranges from $160,000 to $177,500, with additional compensation including Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
- Is this Senior Platform Engineer role remote, hybrid, or on-site?
- This Senior Platform Engineer role is explicitly stated as remote.
- What kind of company is the client hiring for this Senior Platform Engineer role?
- The client is in the direct mail technology industry, focused on modernizing and automating direct mail marketing through a logistics and fulfillment platform.
- What are the 'nice to have' qualifications for a Senior Platform Engineer?
- Nice-to-have qualifications include exposure to PostgreSQL RDS to Aurora migrations, experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD automation, and programming experience in Go, Python, or TypeScript.