Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate our cloud infrastructure across environments using infrastructure-as-code; make it reproducible, reviewable, and easy to evolve.
• Own CI/CD end to end: build pipelines, artifact management, testing gates, progressive delivery, and rollback strategies for services, ML models, and data jobs.
• Automate infrastructure scaling and deployments, autoscaling for GPU and CPU workloads, capacity planning, and cost controls that keep our cloud spend proportional to value.
• Embed security into the platform: secrets management, IAM and least-privilege access, vulnerability scanning, dependency and container hardening, policy-as-code, and audit logging.
• Build observability as a platform capability: metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, and SLOs that engineers can adopt with minimal friction.
• Run large-scale cloud deployments reliably, including incident response and post-incident improvements.
• Create developer tooling and paved paths so product engineers can ship safely without becoming infrastructure experts.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles supporting production systems at meaningful scale.
• Hands-on DevSecOps experience and integrating security scanning, secrets handling, access control, and compliance checks directly into delivery pipelines.
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm) in production, including autoscaling and multi-environment management.
• Solid programming ability in Python, Go, or Bash for automation and tooling.

Preferred

• Experience running GPU workloads and ML infrastructure in the cloud.
• Experience with compliance frameworks and secure or air-gapped deployments (e.g., FedRAMP, CMMC, IL environments).
• Familiarity with edge / hybrid deployments where cloud infrastructure coordinates with on-device or on-prem systems.
• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog).
• Who Thrives at Distributed Spectrum
• Fast learners over specific backgrounds
• We care more about how quickly you can pick up new skills than where you’ve worked before.

The Role

Everything DS ship; inference services, data pipelines, agents, and the UI, it all runs on infrastructure this role owns. We're hiring a Platform Engineer to build the foundation that lets a fast-moving team deploy many times a day, scale to meet unpredictable load, and do it all securely.

You'll own our CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud deployment strategy, and you'll bring a DevSecOps mindset to how we build: security and compliance as part of the pipeline, not a gate at the end.

What we're looking for

• Deep experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Buildkite, ArgoCD, Jenkins, etc.) and deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, feature flags).
• Strong experience with AWS (or GCP / Azure) at scale — compute, networking, storage, IAM, managed Kubernetes, and cost management.
• Expert-level infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation / CDK, or similar; plus configuration management or GitOps workflows.
• Strong operational instincts: you think about failure modes, blast radius, and recover-ability before they become incidents.

Nice to have

Intellectual honesty

The right answer matters more than being right. You challenge assumptions, test ideas, and pivot when needed.

Adaptability

We’re organized, but sometimes things change quickly. You find a way to make it work and balance short-term deliverables with long-term goals.

Ownership of outcomes

You optimize your own time, focus on what matters to deliver quickly, and cut out inefficiencies.

Not building in a vacuum

You stay connected to the rest of our teams and our customers to make sure all the pieces fit together.

What We Offer

• Above-market salary, equity, and benefits package.
• Early Series A Equity

Excellent health, dental, and vision coverage

• 401(k) match - up to 4% of your salary
• Flexible PTO
• Daily office lunches in NYC

ITAR Requirements

To conform to U.S. Government technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here