[Remote] Senior Platform Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ForMotiv is the first Digital Behavioral Intelligence (DBI) platform, providing organizations with insights into their users to enhance conversions and reduce risk. They are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to improve their platform's reliability and performance while collaborating with various internal teams and handling operational improvements.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate directly with the Head of Platform Engineering to execute on the backlog and deliver operational improvements to the platform
- Maintain and improve the reliability and performance of ForMotiv's AWS infrastructure and applications as we grow
- Maintain and improve our CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline/CodeBuild)
- Extend our observability stack (CloudWatch, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) - deeper SLO coverage, better signal, less noise
- Respond to production incidents - triage, root-cause analysis, and post-mortem writeups, and preventative follow-up
- Maintain and strengthen our security compliance posture (Security Hub, logging, access controls)
- Support engineering and data science teams with tooling, guardrails, and quick help when they're blocked
- Perform off hour maintenance when required (e.g. major Postgres upgrades)
Skills
- 5+ years as a DevOps, Cloud, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineer working primarily with AWS
- Strong proficiency with Python and AWS CDK (Python SDK) and modern cloud-native tools
- Hands-on experience with Docker, AWS ECS, RDS (PostgreSQL), and S3-based data lakes (Iceberg experience is a big plus)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (AWS CodePipeline / CodeBuild preferred)
- Familiarity with observability tools such as CloudWatch, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry (or similar)
- Strong UNIX/Linux fundamentals, AWS networking concepts, and the ability to troubleshoot common issues
- Experience writing and optimizing SQL queries against PostgreSQL
- Comfortable working in an Agile environment with standard tooling (Git, Jira, or equivalents)
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer)
- Experience with FinOps / cloud cost optimization at the unit-cost level
- Background or exposure to Machine Learning / Data Science environments
- Familiarity with the AWS Well-Architected Framework
Benefits
- Stock options with vested interest in growing the business
- Permanent, full-time employment with company sponsored employee health, dental & 401k plans
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