Senior Platform Engineer

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.

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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 equivalen