SlipstreamJobs tracks this role from the company's public career site. Apply directly on the employer's site.
Amca is building critical components and subsystems for America's defense and aerospace industrial base. The company operates seven factories nationwide and delivers avionics, hydraulic, and electrical components for platforms including the F-35, F-16, F/A-18, 737MAX, 787, A320neo, A321, Mk-48, and M1 Abrams.
As Software Engineer, Platform, you will own the infrastructure, database, and backend services layer across the product suite. You will keep systems running, deployments smooth, and databases healthy as applications scale, working directly with the founder on technical direction and architectural decisions.
Key responsibilities include:
**Azure Government & Cloud Infrastructure**: Own the Azure Government environment end-to-end, including networking, compute, CDN, DNS, secrets management, and bastion access. Manage cost and right-sizing across cloud resources. Own security posture including network segmentation, identity and access management, and encryption.
**Deployment & Observability**: Build and operate the deployment and observability stack. Write and maintain infrastructure-as-code across dev and prod environments. Build and operate CI/CD pipelines from source to production. Drive monitoring, alerting, and observability across the stack.
**Database Layer**: Administer PostgreSQL including schema evolution, query performance, and connection management. Own migration strategy across multiple applications sharing a single database instance. Implement and maintain row-level security for multi-tenant data isolation. Own backup strategy, disaster recovery, and point-in-time recovery.
**Backend Services**: Manage Node.js API services and background workers on containerized infrastructure. Own auth infrastructure, file storage, caching layer, and secrets management.
Required qualifications include deep PostgreSQL experience (execution plans, index selection, vacuum behavior, connection pooling, row-level security), Azure Government cloud platform expertise, infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipeline experience, and strong backend systems knowledge.
