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Senior Platform Engineer
Burq, Inc.
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Posted Oct 20
About this role
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. You will be designing and building the platform that Burq scales on for the next several years. Infrastructure * 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 * Coordinate 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 Requirements * 5+ years of engineering experience with 3+ years focused on infrastructure and platform engineering * Deep AWS expertise — ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, Lambda, account architecture * Terraform proficiency — you write infrastructure as code and know why it matters * Strong CI/CD background — GitHub Actions, deployment pipelines, environment management * Security-minded — you know how to harden systems without creating friction for product engineers * Experience with observability tooling — CloudWatch, Datadog, or equivalent Benefits Why You’ll Love Working Here Investing in you 🙏 * Competitive salary * Medical coverage * Access to educational resources and courses