Senior Platform Engineer

Requirements

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Security & Access 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
• Coincide external penetration test cadence
• CI/CD & Developer Experience 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
• Observability & Reliability 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