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Flagship Pioneering · 1 day ago

Senior Platform Engineer

Cambridge, MA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$108K/yr - $176K/yr

6+ years exp

Flagship Pioneering is a bioplatform innovation company that creates and builds life sciences companies to transform health care and sustainability. The Senior Platform Engineer will design and maintain AWS-based infrastructure, drive automation for faster deployments, and build resilient systems to support the company's innovative products and teams.

FinanceFinancial ServicesVenture Capital

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure (ECS, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC) or similar services from other cloud providers (GPC, Azure)

Develop backend services and integration tooling to support critical systems

Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CodePipeline)

Drive automation to ensure deployments are fast, reliable, and repeatable

Ensure platform reliability with monitoring, logging, and alerting (CloudWatch, Sentry)

Collaborate with team members across engineering to integrate and scale services

Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis of infrastructure issues

Qualification

AWS servicesPython programmingInfrastructure-as-codeCI/CD automationContainersOrchestrationReliability best practicesTroubleshooting skillsRoot cause analysisData/ML infrastructureTeam collaboration

Required

6+ years of experience in Platform, DevOps, or Backend Infrastructure Engineering

Strong hands-on expertise with AWS services (ECS preferred)

Advanced Python programming skills

Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (AWS CDK and CloudFormation, Terraform)

Experience with CI/CD automation and production systems

Strong grasp of reliability, scalability, and security best practices

Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, ECS)

Exposure to data/ML infrastructure and supporting advanced workloads

Benefits

Healthcare coverage

Annual incentive program

Retirement benefits

A broad range of other benefits

Company

Flagship Pioneering

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Flagship Pioneering is a venture capital firm that invests in life sciences and healthcare companies.

Founded in 2000

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

501-1000 employees

http://flagshippioneering.com

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