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Senior Platform Engineer

inKind
Location
Remote
Posted
23 days ago
Department
Development
Salary
$190,000 - $200,000
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • 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 the job really is

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
  • 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
Things to weigh
  • 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
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