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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

Investing in you 🙏

• Competitive salary
• Medical coverage
• Access to educational resources and courses