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inKind · 16 hours ago

Senior Platform Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$190K/yr - $200K/yr

8+ years exp

inKind is a growing financial and hospitality technology platform, seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own and operate their cloud infrastructure. This role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining AWS infrastructure to ensure security, reliability, and scalability as the organization grows.

E-CommerceFinTechFood and BeverageGift CardLocal BusinessRestaurantsSmall and Medium Businesses

Responsibilities

Own and evolve our AWS infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and managed services

Design and maintain infrastructure that supports high availability, predictable performance, and financial correctness

Lead platform-level architectural decisions, including service migrations and runtime changes (e.g., Redis → Valkey, EKS → ECS/Fargate)

Ensure infrastructure choices align with reliability, cost, and operational simplicity—not just trend adoption

Design and maintain deployment pipelines that are safe, repeatable, and observable

Own system reliability through capacity planning, failure modeling, and controlled change management

Lead incident response and root-cause analysis for infrastructure-level failures

Participate in on-call rotations and continuously improve operational ergonomics

Build and maintain strong observability across infrastructure and services (metrics, logs, tracing, alerting)

Ensure secure configuration of AWS resources, IAM policies, secrets management, and network boundaries

Proactively identify infrastructure risks related to scale, cost, or security and address them before they become incidents

Partner closely with application engineers to ensure platform constraints and capabilities are well understood

Drive infrastructure changes through hands-on implementation

Establish standards and best practices for infrastructure, deployment, and operations as the team grows

Mentor other platform engineers and help raise the overall operational maturity of the organization

Qualification

AWSInfrastructure as CodeHigh Availability DesignContainer OrchestrationIncident ResponseSecurity Best PracticesSystems ThinkingOperational MaturityClear Communication

Required

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

Experience debugging real production incidents involving networking, scaling, or service degradation

Preferred

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

Benefits

Generous PTO and company holiday policy + company paid Short Term Disability

100% employer covered health and dental insurance for our direct employees (a set plan is covered, with higher tier healthcare coverage available at employee’s additional cost; dependent coverage is at employee’s cost); vision plan available at employee’s additional cost

Child Care Benefits and generous parental leave