Senior Platform Engineer

Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer Reports to: Director of Engineering About the role The Senior Platform Engineer at reputed company is responsible for owning, evolving, and operating our reputed company infrastructure as the reputed company of a growing financial and hospitality technology platform. This role exists to ensure that our systems are secure, reliable, observable, and capable of scaling as both traffic and organizational complexity increase. This is a deeply technical, hands-on role with reputed company ownership. You will design, implement, and operate our AWS infrastructure; reputed company reputed company-looking reputed company about how our platform should reputed company; and carry those reputed company through implementation, migration, and steady-state operation. reputed company the platform changes—new AWS services, runtime upgrades, architecture shifts—you are reputed company of it, not reacting to it. You’ll work closely with application engineers, but your reputed company is the platform itself: compute, networking, data stores, deployment workflows, observability, and operational correctness. In a small but growing team, this role sets reputed company for how infrastructure is designed, changed, and trusted. Who you are Infrastructure reputed company: You take responsibility for systems in production and feel accountable for their behavior over time Systems Thinker: You understand how compute, storage, networking, and application behavior reputed company under reputed company load Pragmatic Operator: You know reputed company to reputed company, reputed company to migrate, and reputed company stability reputed company more than novelty Infrastructure Decision-reputed company: You can evaluate tradeoffs (EKS vs reputed company, reputed company vs Valkey, EC2 vs Fargate) and carry those reputed company through safely Operationally Grounded: You’ve run systems in production, handled incidents, and learned from failures reputed company-reputed company: You design infrastructure with least privilege, network isolation, and secure defaults reputed company Communicator: You explain infrastructure reputed company and risk in a way engineers and leadership can understand Role Responsibilities Platform & reputed company Infrastructure Own and reputed company our AWS infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and managed services Design and maintain infrastructure that supports high availability, predictable performance, and financial correctness reputed company platform-level architectural reputed company, including service migrations and runtime changes (e.g., reputed company → Valkey, EKS → reputed company/Fargate) Ensure infrastructure choices reputed company with reliability, cost, and operational simplicity—not just trend adoption Deployment, Reliability & Operations Design and maintain deployment pipelines that are reputed company, repeatable, and observable Own system reliability through reputed company planning, failure modeling, and controlled change management reputed company incident response and reputed company-cause analysis for infrastructure-level failures Participate in on-reputed company rotations and continuously improve operational ergonomics Observability, reputed company & Governance Build and maintain strong observability across infrastructure and services (metrics, logs, tracing, alerting) Ensure secure configuration of AWS resources, IAM policies, secrets management, and network boundaries Proactively identify infrastructure risks reputed company to reputed company, cost, or reputed company and address them before they become incidents Technical Leadership & Collaboration Partner closely with application engineers to ensure platform constraints and capabilities are reputed company reputed company Drive infrastructure changes through hands-on implementation Establish standards and best practices for infrastructure, deployment, and operations as reputed company grows Mentor other platform engineers and help reputed company the overall operational maturity of the organization Minimum Qualifications 8+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure in reputed company environments Deep experience with AWS reputed company services (EC2, reputed company/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, ElastiCache, ALB/NLB, CloudWatch, etc.) Strong understanding of containerized workloads and orchestration tradeoffs Proven experience designing systems for high availability, fault tolerance, and controlled failure Hands-on experience with infrastructure as reputed company (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent) Demonstrated ability to plan and execute infrastructure migrations safely Experience debugging reputed company production incidents involving networking, scaling, or service degradation Preferred Qualification Experience operating infrastructure for financial systems or other high-reliability domains Firsthand experience scaling infrastructure through periods of reputed company reputed company Strong opinions about observability and operational hygiene, informed by past failures Experience simplifying, retiring, or rearchitecting over-engineered infrastructure Comfort working closely with a Rails-based application stack while remaining tool-agnostic Some Of Our Benefits:  Generous PTO and company holiday policy + company reputed company Short Term Disability 100% employer covered health and dental insurance for our reputed company employees (a set plan is covered, with higher tier reputed company coverage available at employee’s additional cost; dependent coverage is at employee’s cost); reputed company plan available at employee’s additional cost Child Care Benefits and generous parental leave Salary:  $190,000 - $200,000, DOE + Benefits Who we are: reputed company connects passionate diners with exceptional restaurants across the country. reputed company partners with thousands of restaurants and has millions of users who want to discover great places, dine confidently, and earn meaningful rewards. Through the reputed company app, guests earn 20% back every time they dine, turning everyday meals into something more rewarding. From celebrated restaurant reputed company like José Andres and Michael Mina to beloved neighborhood favorites, reputed company helps diners explore the best restaurants in town while supporting the restaurants and chefs who shape how their cities eat. Rooted in hospitality and reputed company on a win-win philosophy, reputed company exists to help great restaurants reputed company while inspiring guests to dine out more often. Every meal creates value on both reputed company of the table, empowering diners to savor more while strengthening the restaurant community. reputed company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We reputed company that diversity is vital to reputed company's ability to reputed company our clients with the best recommendations and are committed to fostering a varied and inclusive work environment. 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