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Senior Platform Engineer

Burq

Skills

Required

  • AWS
  • CI/CD
  • observability
  • CloudWatch
  • S3
  • IAM
  • GitHub Actions
  • harden systems without
  • platform engineering
  • tooling
  • Datadog
  • RDS

Preferred

  • infrastructure
  • Terraform
  • Infrastructure management
  • AWS account split
  • Aurora DB migration
  • IAM hardening
  • public S3 bucket audits
  • SOC 2 Type 2 readiness
  • CI/CD pipeline ownership

Join Burq as a Senior Platform Engineer, the founding member of our Platform team. You will own our engineering foundations, including infrastructure, security, CI/CD, and reliability. This high-leverage, high-ownership role involves designing and building the platform that Burq will scale on for the next several years. You will manage our AWS infrastructure, enhance security measures, improve CI/CD processes, and ensure observability and reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Infrastructure management, including AWS account split, Aurora DB migration, and Terraform usage.
  • Security and access control, including IAM hardening, public S3 bucket audits, and SOC 2 Type 2 readiness.
  • CI/CD pipeline ownership and improvement, including GitHub Actions, build times, and deployment velocity.

Requirements

  • Security-minded — you know how to harden systems without creating friction for product engineers
  • 5+ years of engineering experience with 3+ years focused on infrastructure and platform engineering
  • Experience with observability tooling — CloudWatch, Datadog, or equivalent
  • Deep AWS expertise — ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, Lambda, account architecture
  • Strong CI/CD background — GitHub Actions, deployment pipelines, environment management

Preferred

  • Terraform proficiency — you write infrastructure as code and know why it matters