element451 - Senior Platform Engineer
Requirements
• 7+ years across site reliability, operations, delivery, infrastructure, or platform engineering, with a track record of hands-on delivery - including real startup experience where you owned broad, shifting scope without a large team behind you. • A strong SRE foundation - SLI/SLO design, observability stack ownership, and incident response in a production environment with real customer impact. • Strong CI/CD and delivery-engineering chops - building and operating pipelines (GitHub Actions), Docker/ECR workflows, and ECS deployment automation, with progressive delivery and automated rollback - enough to co-own the delivery platform, not just consume it. • Security-operations depth you can own without a security team behind you - IAM governance and least-privilege, secrets management, network security and threat detection (WAF, GuardDuty), and vulnerability triage and remediation. You'll be the org's hands-on security practitioner, so the judgment to set an operational bar - not just follow one - matters here. • Deep, current AWS expertise - ECS/Fargate, Lambda, SQS/SNS, EventBridge, S3/CloudFront, VPC networking, IAM, and Secrets Manager - plus strong Terraform and infrastructure-as-code discipline across multi-environment systems. • Operational experience with MongoDB Atlas or a comparable managed database platform - backup and recovery, performance tuning, and monitoring at scale. • Working knowledge of compliance operations - SOC 2 Type II and FERPA - and producing audit evidence (we use Vanta) as a byproduct of good engineering rather than a separate effort. • Comfort operating as a high-output IC with broad domain ownership and a long execution horizon. Current familiarity with AI-assisted operations - intelligent alerting, anomaly detection, or AI-augmented incident response - is a plus. • Impactful not Immediate - We prioritize and invest in initiatives that will be most impactful. • Progress before Perfection - We are action-oriented people. We are empowered to make decisions and achieve our goals. • Learners before Masters - We are curious and humble people who strive to constantly improve. • Together not Alone - We rally behind each other and pitch in to support the greater whole. • Customer Success not Support - We solve partner goals and prioritize their success.
Benefits
• We invest in our team the same way we invest in our product - thoughtfully, and for the long term. • Competitive pay and full benefits - a salary calibrated to the seniority of the role, plus comprehensive medical & dental coverage for you and your family. • Truly remote - We're built remote-first, not remote-tolerant. • Time to recharge - flexible PTO, paid company holidays, tenure milestones that reward your commitment, and your birthday off. • Work that matters - every release helps students find their path to college and succeed once they get there. Your craft has a real human impact. • OUR INTERVIEW PROCESS • Our process is rigorous and designed to be real signal - for you and for us. Expect live, interactive technical assessment with our engineers - real systems and real operational scenarios, not take-home busywork or trivia. You'll show how you reason about reliability, security, and trade-offs under pressure, and how you apply AI tooling in the work. We move quickly for the right people and give you a clear view of the bar before you accept.
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