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Burq is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to be the founding member of its Platform team, owning engineering foundations including infrastructure, security, CI/CD, and reliability. This is a high-leverage, high-ownership role where you will design and build the platform that Burq scales on for the next several years.
Infrastructure Responsibilities:
- Own and execute the AWS account split, separating production, staging, and development into isolated environments
- Lead the Aurora DB production migration with support from the infrastructure advisor
- Manage and evolve ECS Fargate services, RDS clusters, ElastiCache, SQS queues, and ALB configuration
- Own Terraform infrastructure-as-code implementation
Security & Access:
- Harden IAM with developer permission sets, production access controls, and 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 GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for build times, test reliability, and deployment velocity
- Build PR stack environments enabling product teams to test independently
- Drive local development stack initiative using Docker Compose to 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
Requirements:
- 5+ years of engineering experience with 3+ years focused on infrastructure and platform engineering
- Deep AWS expertise including ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, Lambda, and account architecture
- Terraform proficiency with infrastructure-as-code experience
- Strong CI/CD background with GitHub Actions, deployment pipelines, and environment management
- Security-minded approach to hardening systems without creating friction for product engineers
- Experience with observability tooling such as CloudWatch, Datadog, or equivalent
